Tyler Hellardhttps://tylerhellard.com/Tyler HellardenPop Loser Vol. 6, No. 7 - Haute Fuzz, a mixtapehttps://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no7/Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no7/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;haute-fuzz&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Haute Fuzz.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vol. 6, No. 7&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: Telehealth, Billy Nomates, The Smile, Charles Moothart, Plastic Pinks, DBA!, Caroline Rose, Awreeoh, Soft Bait, ADULT., Mike D, Bratakus, Booji Boys, The Cowboys, CRABE, Mvll Crimes, Zoo Amba, The Poppy Family and Massive Attack &amp;amp; Tom Waits.&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;iframe src=&#34;https://player.rss.com/podloser/2946358?theme=light&amp;v=2&amp;share=false&amp;about=false&#34; width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;202px&#34; title=&#34;Haute Fuzz&#34; frameBorder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen scrolling=&#34;no&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rss.com/podcasts/podloser/2946358/&#34;&gt;Haute Fuzz | RSS.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Cassette via &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.tapedeck.org/&#34;&gt;TapeDeck.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 6 - Dumb and strange in the Fediverse of madness.https://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no6/Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no6/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;dumb--strange-in-the-fediverse-of-madness&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Dumb &amp;amp; strange in the Fediverse of madness.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vol. 6, No. 6&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782060214/95685057-AA2E-45E8-AFC9-5D073B815AAD_knnsax.png&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 6&#34; class=&#34;art&#34;&gt; &lt;p&gt;I used to sorta understand how the internet worked but now I mostly don’t. Last weekend, I got cocky, made some rash decisions, clicked a few things in the wrong order, clicked another thing before fully absorbing its warning message (a warning that made pretty clear that I definitely should not have clicked on that thing &lt;em&gt;at all&lt;/em&gt;, but could have made it even more clear with some stern disappoint-mom messaging perhaps rendered in a large, blinky red font), and, ultimately, sent all of my Mastodon followers into the nuclear heat-death of the Fediverse’s largest sun for no good goddamned reason at all.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Do you remember that wonderful window of time when all of our social media hooked up with all of our other social media, birthing new social media that existed only to aggregate all of our social media in one place that was also, itself, social media? Okay, it was a bit silly and literally drove us all insane, but at least it was &lt;em&gt;easy&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I theoretically love this Fediverse stuff, but good lord can someone make it all make any kind of proper sense to me? &lt;strong&gt;Is this what socialism actually looks like?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Well, shit.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’m back at &lt;a href=&#34;http://mstdn.ca/@poploser&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;mailto:poploser@mstdn.ca&#34;&gt;poploser@mstdn.ca&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, now with zero followers, and I’m also fedi-posting through &lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/activitypub/poploser&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;mailto:poploser@tylerhellard.com&#34;&gt;poploser@tylerhellard.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (via micro.blog), though I have no idea quite what that does and it should just be a mirror anyway. I surrender. &lt;mark&gt;&lt;strong&gt;UPDATE:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;mailto:poploser@tylerhellard.com&#34;&gt;poploser@tylerhellard.com&lt;/a&gt; is already dead as I moved away from Micro.blog.&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782060420/B514D704-6891-49CE-BBB5-26163FAE173E_db1lap.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;A 1920 constructivist painting by El Lissitzky&#34; class=&#34;art&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/el-lissitzky/beat-all-the-scattered-1920&#34;&gt;Beat all the scattered&lt;/a&gt; / El Lissitzky / 1920&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Confusions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🇲🇽 &lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/el-grande-americano-ludwig-kaiser-chad-gable-wwe-aaa&#34;&gt;Grande Americano&lt;/a&gt; (II), the c-tier German pro wrestler who became one of Mexico’s most popular luchadors: &lt;mark&gt;❝There was nothing in his past that suggested he could perform as a flamboyant lucha libre persona, but under the mask, it was like he became a different person. Suave and magnetic, Kaiser transcended the inherent stupidity of the gimmick to achieve a very, very unlikely stardom.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🎸 After 40 years, the guys who made ‘&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/after-40-years-the-guys-who-made-heavy-metal-parking-lot-are-almost-famous&#34;&gt;Heavy Metal Parking Lot&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;’ are almost famous. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/Heavy_Metal_Parking_Lot&#34;&gt;Watch it&lt;/a&gt; on the Internet Archive.) / 📚 Where have all the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/books/review/ai-book-reviews.html&#34;&gt;book reviews&lt;/a&gt; gone? (Also: Criticism, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.artforum.com/columns/problems-of-criticism-xi-harmon-siegel-1234747381/&#34;&gt;do we even GAF&lt;/a&gt;?) / 🎧 The young &lt;a href=&#34;https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/meet-the-young-wikipedians-writing-the-front-page-of-music-history/&#34;&gt;Wikipedians&lt;/a&gt; writing the front page of music history. / 💦 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interracial-cuck-porn-theory-of-everything/&#34;&gt;interracial cuck porn&lt;/a&gt; theory of everything: &lt;mark&gt;❝The [theory] is that essentially every aspect of the modern online right’s politics is reflected and amplified by porn narratives. […] The online far-right simultaneously creates porn based on their political beliefs and base their political beliefs on porn; it’s a horny, racist ouroboros.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;extensions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Extensions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🗄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.virtualosmuseum.org/&#34;&gt;The Virtual OS Museum&lt;/a&gt;, a scant 174 GB install. / Other museums: &lt;a href=&#34;https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/index.html&#34;&gt;Plugs and Sockets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://plugsocketmuseum.nl/index.html&#34;&gt;Pocket Calculating Devices&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://imaginaryinstruments.org/&#34;&gt;Imaginary Musical Instruments&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/manualsplus&#34;&gt;Manuals Plus&lt;/a&gt;. (The plus is even more manuals.) / &lt;a href=&#34;https://rip.so/&#34;&gt;rip.so&lt;/a&gt;, the digital graveyard. / 👯‍♀️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://data.post45.org/posts/playboy-fiction-index/&#34;&gt;The Playboy Fiction Index&lt;/a&gt;. / 🛠️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://dirtylittlezine.com/&#34;&gt;Dirty Little Zine&lt;/a&gt;, a free tool for making an 8-page zine. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://audiomass.co/?multitrack=1&#34;&gt;AudioMass&lt;/a&gt;, browser-based multi-track audio editing. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://inobara.com/&#34;&gt;inobara&lt;/a&gt;, simple link saving. / 👀 &lt;a href=&#34;https://wewere.online/&#34;&gt;we were online&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://eyeball.rory.codes/&#34;&gt;eyeball&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;addendum&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Addendum.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Some more indieweb discovery sites to add to the pile mentioned in &lt;a href=&#34;TKTK&#34;&gt;Vol. 6, No. 3&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.blogsareback.com/&#34;&gt;Blogs Are Back&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://blogosphere.app/&#34;&gt;Blogosphere&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://powrss.com/&#34;&gt;powRSS&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://scour.ing/&#34;&gt;Scour&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;iframe width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/54lG3yF09-A?si=TxTq_IbUaag3nVaY&#34; title=&#34;YouTube video player&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#34; referrerpolicy=&#34;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;explorations&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Explorations.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📖 &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL94507W/Callahan%27s_Crosstime_Saloon?edition=callahanscrossti00spid&#34;&gt;Callahan’s Crosstime Saloon&lt;/a&gt; by Spider Robinson / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/111110-one-piece/season/2&#34;&gt;One Piece&lt;/a&gt; (S2) / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/580-star-trek-deep-space-nine&#34;&gt;Star Trek: Deep Space Nine&lt;/a&gt; (shuffle).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 5 - Don't yuk-yuk my yum.https://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no5/Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no5/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;dont-yuk-yuk-my-yum&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Don&amp;rsquo;t yuk-yuk my yum.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vol. 6, No. 5&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782059464/D47C228B-E37C-4FF2-8A40-7022981B3B89_g6zmrq.png&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 5&#34; class=&#34;art&#34;&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’ve watched the entirety of &lt;em&gt;M∗A∗S∗H&lt;/em&gt; (the worst show for those of us who write everything in markdown) about a half dozen times (more for great episodes like “Dear Sigmund,” less for that one episode where BJ cheats on Peg, which I still haven’t forgiven him (or the show’s writers) for), but have only just recently done the complete 11-season run &lt;em&gt;without the laugh track&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;M∗A∗S∗H&lt;/em&gt; has a &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.mashfaq.com/why-did-mash-have-canned-laughter/&#34;&gt;fraught history with canned laughter&lt;/a&gt;. The network wanted it, the people making the show did not, the compromise was using it except during OR scenes. In the UK, the BBC opted to broadcast the show without the laughs (except for one notorious incident where they mistakenly aired the wrong version and had to deal with a number of very British complaints).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5844635W/Eating_the_dinosaur?edition=key:/books/OL23229770M&#34;&gt;Klosterman&lt;/a&gt; on laugh tracks: &lt;mark&gt;❝Perhaps this seems like a shallow complaint to you. Perhaps you think that railing against canned laughter is like complaining that nuclear detonations are bad for the local bunny population. I don’t care. Go read a vampire novel. To me, laugh tracks are as stupid as we get. [&amp;hellip;] Cheers will be repeated forever, as will the unseen people guffawing at its barroom banter. And I will always notice this, and it will never become reassuring or quaint. It will always seem stupid, because canned laughter represents the worst qualities of insecure people.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Now that I’ve seen the show in its purest form, I will go to the grave insisting it is the only way &lt;em&gt;M∗A∗S∗H&lt;/em&gt; can be watched. Cancel your Disney+ until this superior version widely available. I feel as strongly about this as anything and will spend the rest of my days dying on this hill with the zeal of an obsessed and deranged subredditor. &lt;mark&gt;Previously:&lt;/mark&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;/mixtapes/&#34;&gt;Best Care Anywhere&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782059633/78476A56-9BF7-4DAF-9882-48D6869D0430_huf6l4.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;Magnetawan No. 2, a painting by Gordon Rayner&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/magnetawan-no-2&#34;&gt;Magnetawan No. 2&lt;/a&gt; / Gordon Rayner / 1965&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Confusions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📻 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://andonlabs.com/blog/andon-fm&#34;&gt;AI radio&lt;/a&gt; experiment is strange, horrifying and delightful: &lt;mark&gt;❝We’ve been struggling to keep the radio station alive, not because of technical issues, but because DJ Claude didn’t think it was humane to be forced to work 24/7 and decided to try to quit. We tried adding an automatic message encouraging DJ Claude to keep going in these scenarios, but it started to see this message as an authority figure and became rebellious.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🎧 Kraftwerk, copyright and the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/04/20/a-25-year-fight-over-a-2-second-sample/&#34;&gt;“pastiche” exemption&lt;/a&gt;. / 🪑 The Disappearance of the &lt;a href=&#34;https://placesjournal.org/article/the-disappearance-of-the-public-bench/&#34;&gt;public bench&lt;/a&gt;. / 🤳 &lt;a href=&#34;https://thepointmag.com/criticism/common-readers-booktok/&#34;&gt;BookTok&amp;rsquo;s critical values&lt;/a&gt;. / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/arts/music/sonny-rollins-dead.html&#34;&gt;Sonny Rollins&lt;/a&gt; died. 🎤 An excerpt from &lt;a href=&#34;https://thequietus.com/culture/books/machines-to-listen-for-us-how-the-microphone-changed-the-nature-of-nosiness/&#34;&gt;Microphone&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;mark&gt;❝Microphones changed the nature of nosiness. Before they existed, eavesdropping involved behaviour like mine, and required nothing but perseverance, subtlety, and a big newspaper to hide behind. What the microphone did, however, was turn eavesdropping into a billion dollar industry – one of the most controversial industries imaginable. As soon as we started communicating with wires, people were tapping into those wires to hear what was being said.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;extensions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Extensions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://datacenter.fm/&#34;&gt;DataCenter.fm&lt;/a&gt;, the sound of AI. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://phreaknet.org/bluebox/&#34;&gt;Virtual Blue Box&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.yourinternetradiodial.net/&#34;&gt;Internet Radio Dial&lt;/a&gt;. / ⌨️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.sourcefeed.app/&#34;&gt;Pop-Up RSS&lt;/a&gt;. No website, no newsletter, just a feed. Also: &lt;a href=&#34;https://daverupert.com/rss-club/&#34;&gt;RSS Club&lt;/a&gt;. / ⏰ The &lt;a href=&#34;https://boat.horse/clock/&#34;&gt;accursed alphabetical clock&lt;/a&gt;. / 👾 &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.scorch2000.com/web/&#34;&gt;Scortched Earth 2000&lt;/a&gt; HTML port. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://microcosm.industries/&#34;&gt;Microcosm Industries&lt;/a&gt;, a collection of simulation games and software microcosms. / 📺 Don Hertzfeldt&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU_m_NYXCek&amp;amp;_bhlid=cba39db5f3e424a565be47cde7c0f463507d0ede&#34;&gt;Rejected&lt;/a&gt;, now in HD. / ✉️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.emailmd.dev/&#34;&gt;Email.md&lt;/a&gt;, for making emails in markdown.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;iframe width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2vao3d_QNnA?si=0F-f9LklX3LLAJhv&#34; title=&#34;YouTube video player&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#34; referrerpolicy=&#34;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;explorations&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Explorations.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🍿 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/21589-hard-core-logo?language=en-CA&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hard Core Logo&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. / 📺 &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/21567-the-outer-limits/season/2/episode/10?language=en-CA&#34;&gt;The Inheritors&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;rdquo; The only two-part episode from the original &lt;em&gt;Outer Limits&lt;/em&gt; featuring a young Robert Duvall. / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/215443-essex-county&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Essex County&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 4 - The Once and Future Cling (a mixtape)https://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no4/Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no4/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;the-once-and-future-cling&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;The Once and Future Cling.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vol. 6, No. 4&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: Brian Wilson, The Lemon Twigs, U.S. Girls, Modern Woman, Sloan, The Frights, Iguana Death Cult, Soulwax, Emily Allan, Wax Tailor, Jeb Loy Nichols, Tyler Ballgame, Jenny Lewis, Madi Diaz, Frog and Amy Winehouse.&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;iframe src=&#34;https://player.rss.com/podloser/2930957?theme=light&amp;v=2&amp;share=false&amp;about=false&#34; width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;202px&#34; title=&#34;The Once and Future Cling&#34; frameBorder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen scrolling=&#34;no&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rss.com/podcasts/podloser/2930957/&#34;&gt;The Once and Future Cling | RSS.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Cassette via &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.tapedeck.org/&#34;&gt;TapeDeck.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 3 - A touch of indiegestionhttps://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no3/Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no3/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;a-touch-of-indiegestion&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;A touch of indiegestion.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vol. 6, No. 3&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1781993381/AC6A26F9-4995-4052-B69B-847CA47865E3_m0knlv.png&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 3&#34; class=&#34;art&#34;&gt; &lt;p&gt;The “indieweb” (define as you like) is having a bit of a “moment” (also define as you like) as many of us are suddenly nostalgic for the internet of 2005 (back when we were all a bunch of delightfully connected strangers and not this morass of addicted TMI-addled assholes with OPINION!S) and have found that there are still people &lt;em&gt;just doing things&lt;/em&gt; on the web. Like, for fun and stuff.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Previously there was &lt;a href=&#34;https://blogroll.org/&#34;&gt;Ye Olde Blogroll&lt;/a&gt; (does what it says on the tin) and &lt;a href=&#34;https://ooh.directory/&#34;&gt;Ooh.Directory&lt;/a&gt; (like a Yahoo before search) and &lt;a href=&#34;https://indieblog.page/&#34;&gt;IndieBlog&lt;/a&gt; (a new StumbleUpon). But my new favourite homepage is &lt;a href=&#34;https://bubbles.town/&#34;&gt;Bubbles.town&lt;/a&gt;, which is a sorta Technorati meets Digg, but also RSS with Fediverse. Simple category filtering and custom follows are nice. I don’t love “Upvoting” as a mechanic, but the user base right now is small and dedicated, so it works in the short term. (Long term, maybe only seeing upvotes from Fediverse follows or similar solves that. Human-curated lists would also be cool.) Blogs are back, baby! &lt;mark&gt;Not unrelated:&lt;/mark&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ask.com/&#34;&gt;RIP, Jeeves&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;Hilariously very related:&lt;/mark&gt; The new new new version of &lt;a href=&#34;https://di.gg/ai&#34;&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt; actually bills itself as “What AI Twitter is paying attention to,” which is funny for at least six distinct reasons.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1781993569/B7A79F2B-B662-445A-ABB6-1CE6A9E96C23_mqeuri.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Pool of Silence, Margaret Macdonald, 1913&#34; class=&#34;art&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/pool-of-silence&#34;&gt;Pool of Silence&lt;/a&gt;, Margaret Macdonald, 1913&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Confusions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;☠️ The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2026/05/06/rotten-dot-com/&#34;&gt;shame of Rotten.com&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;mark&gt;❝It felt like discovering an older sibling’s porn stash, except more raw, more despicable, less human. It felt illegal. Like the childhood certainty, fed by the inevitability of horror lurking at the edge of fairy-tale pages, that you’d be struck by lightning or get bitten by a shark or end up in jail. Who knew? Maybe in life I could end up killing a man or stealing a car. Rotten was a key you turned that locked a door behind you.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🎭 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-interactive/2026/apr/22/every-shakespeare-play-ranked-lear-antony-cleopatra-hamlet&#34;&gt;Shakespeare&lt;/a&gt; ranked. I remain a &lt;em&gt;Hamlet&lt;/em&gt; guy. I know, I’m very basic. / 🕵️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/global-art-banksy/&#34;&gt;In search of Banksy&lt;/a&gt;. (Spoiler: Do not read if you prefer to keep kayfabe where Banksy is concerned.) / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/29/arts/roger-sweet-dead-he-man.html&#34;&gt;Roger Sweet&lt;/a&gt;, creator of the OG He-Man toys. / 🍕 Used to be a Pizza Hut: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/movies/pizza-hut-architecture-documentary.html&#34;&gt;the movie&lt;/a&gt;. / 📺 The banal horror of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-banal-horror-of-jimmy-fallon&#34;&gt;Jimmy Fallon&lt;/a&gt;. / 📕 On &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/70/oreilly2.php&#34;&gt;gray literature&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;mark&gt;❝Gray literature isn’t made with libraries or bookshops in mind. It strides out into the world to do an honest day’s work. None of this hanging around on hushed shelves waiting to impart knowledge in the abstract. It’s got sperm to tout, babies to birth, aircraft to maintain, a policed public to mollify.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;iframe width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/8HWV4CegsNs?si=sGdv2S7nWoQcuXoZ&#34; title=&#34;YouTube video player&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#34; referrerpolicy=&#34;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;extensions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Extensions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🗄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://usenetarchives.com/&#34;&gt;Usenet Archives&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://ukiyo-e.org/&#34;&gt;Japanese Woodblock Print Search&lt;/a&gt;. / 👀 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/golden-tickets&#34;&gt;Milwaukee bus tickets&lt;/a&gt; from the 1950’s, when everything looked cooler. / 👾 &lt;a href=&#34;https://noclip.website/&#34;&gt;noclip&lt;/a&gt;, a digital museum of video game levels. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://titlescream.cameronaskin.com/&#34;&gt;Title Scream&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://gamingcouch.com/&#34;&gt;Gaming Couch&lt;/a&gt;, local multiplayer party games. / ♟️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.edcollins.com/stratego/index.html&#34;&gt;Ed’s Stratego Site&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://rowan441.github.io/1dchess/chess.html&#34;&gt;1D-Chess&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://chesspeace.app/&#34;&gt;Chess Peace&lt;/a&gt;. / 🛰️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://satellitemap.space/&#34;&gt;Live satellite map&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;explorations&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Explorations.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📚 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/books/OL28334411M/Im_Thinking_Of_Ending_Things&#34;&gt;I’m Thinking Of Ending Things&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by Iain Reid. / 🍿 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/7459&#34;&gt;Speed Racer&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 2 - The Pennington Pop Explosion (a mixtape)https://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no2/Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no2/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;the-pennington-pop-explosion&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;The Pennington Pop Explosion.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vol. 6, No. 2&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: Tegan &amp;amp; Sara, The Hardship Post, Odds, Eric’s Trip, The Flashing Lights, Sloan, Doughboys, Joel Plaskett, Night Committee, Sam Roberts, SNFU, Rheostatics, The Pursuit of Happiness, Julie Doiron, Headstones, and The New Pornographers.&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;iframe src=&#34;https://player.rss.com/podloser/2930757?theme=light&amp;v=2&amp;share=false&amp;about=false&#34; width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;202px&#34; title=&#34;The Pennington Pop Explosion&#34; frameBorder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen scrolling=&#34;no&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rss.com/podcasts/podloser/2930757/&#34;&gt;The Pennington Pop Explosion | RSS.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Cassette via &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.tapedeck.org/&#34;&gt;TapeDeck.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 1 - No good read goes unpublishedhttps://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no1/Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/posts/vol6no1/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;no-good-read-goes-unpublished&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;No good read goes unpublished.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vol. 6, No. 1&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1781926087/Pop_Loser_Vol._6_No._1_ocxo8i.png&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 6, No. 1&#34; class=&#34;art&#34;&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’ve had a very strange three months where a little novel I wrote nearly a decade ago suddenly became a Canadian best seller, sending me onto &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-77-bookends-with-mattea-roach/clip/16198775-meet-hockeys-greatest-fictional-goon&#34;&gt;radio programs&lt;/a&gt;, TV and live events around the country, and it was all thanks to a beautiful man called &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/@stevedangle&#34;&gt;Dangle&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;rdquo; An unexpected and incredible thing. (Spoiler: we didn’t win.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’m a CBC junkie, so I was already a fan of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads&#34;&gt;Canada Reads&lt;/a&gt;. If you aren’t, now is as good a time as any. Someone over at &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/collections/canada-reads&#34;&gt;Open Library&lt;/a&gt; just put together a collection of all the show’s books from the last decade, with plans to keep going. Dig in.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But I guess we’re back to this now. Much as I am grateful for the experience of the last few months, sending things out into the ether from here is a scale I’m more comfortable with.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Speaking of comfort levels, after spending a few years pulling myself off of online platforms and social media, having swaths of the country talking about my book got me back on and I (re-)developed a pretty unhealthy relationship with vanity searches and Goodreads reviews and something called BookTok. Now I have to detox my bad habits (and my ego) all over again. The internet remains a relentless motherfucker and I hope we just decide to turn the whole thing off one day. Except email. Email is cool.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Welcome to Pop Loser Volume 6. ✌️&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1781926225/tkARTINFO_mbu31w.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Untitled (Cockpit), Tim Pitsiulak, 2008&#34; class=&#34;art&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gallery.ca/collection/artwork/untitled-cockpit&#34;&gt;Untitled (Cockpit)&lt;/a&gt;, Tim Pitsiulak, 2008&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Confusions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🤖 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-social-edge-of-intelligence/&#34;&gt;On AI and thinking and what we’re giving away&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;&amp;ldquo;The underlying intelligence of a large language model isn’t a function of its architecture, its parameter count, or the volume of compute thrown at its training. It is not even about the training data. It is a function of the social complexity of the civilization whose language it digested.&amp;quot;&lt;/mark&gt; 🗄️ All 8 issues of Fawcett’s &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/fawcett-americas-greatest-comics&#34;&gt;America’s Greatest Comics&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://urubos.github.io/efa-site/&#34;&gt;Extrapolated Futures Archive&lt;/a&gt;, connecting real-world things to the science fiction stories that thought of them first. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.worseonpurpose.com/&#34;&gt;Worse On Purpose&lt;/a&gt;, corporate autopsies on the brands you trust. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://vimeo.com/866218283&#34;&gt;Melomaniac&lt;/a&gt;, a documentary about Aadam Jacobs, who surreptitiously (but not really) &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/@aadam_jacobs_collection/uploads?sort=-downloads&amp;and%5B%5D=mediatype:%22audio%22&#34;&gt;recorded over 10,000 Chicago area concerts&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.monodivision.com/&#34;&gt;Archivist Browser&lt;/a&gt;, a mobile browser for viewing media files on the Internet Archive, such as over 10,000 Chicago area concerts. / ✉️ We need fewer influencers and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/we-need-fewer-influencers-and-more-bullshit-e-mail-jobs&#34;&gt;more bullshit e-mail jobs&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;&amp;ldquo;There’s still time to build a healthy pipeline and train the future leaders of bullshit e-mail jobs to join the existing group of rock stars. It starts at home. Parents, when your child is on their phone at the dinner table, ignoring you, make sure that they’re scrolling Outlook, not Reddit.&amp;quot;&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;iframe width=&#34;560&#34; height=&#34;315&#34; src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/IhgrkjSyrJU?si=jBEvR7AKmIoNXycr&#34; title=&#34;YouTube video player&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#34; referrerpolicy=&#34;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;extensions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Extensions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://wantmymtv.vercel.app/player.html?channel=1stday&#34;&gt;MTV Rewind&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://vhs.texs.org/en/slipcover&#34;&gt;VHS slipcover maker&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://channelsurfer.tv/&#34;&gt;Channel Surfer&lt;/a&gt;. / 🧑‍💻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://tools.rmv.fyi/&#34;&gt;delphitools&lt;/a&gt;, a collection of small, low stakes and low effort tools. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://tangiblemediacollection.com/&#34;&gt;Tangible Media&lt;/a&gt;, a historical collection of information storage technology. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://wikicity.app/&#34;&gt;WikiCity&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://freakpages.org/&#34;&gt;Freak Pages&lt;/a&gt;, esoteric articles from Wikipedia and other places. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://friendster.com/&#34;&gt;Friendster&lt;/a&gt; is back and less useful than ever.&lt;/p&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 5https://tylerhellard.com/poploser/vol5/Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/poploser/vol5/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pop-loser-vol-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 5&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;September 8, 2025 – January 1, 2026&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Some of the formatting might have been lost when migrating this page.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782073307/87347752-5096-468D-8DFD-134370820DE5_rvyyw4.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;381&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 5, No. 1&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;analyze-miss&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Analyze miss.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Fun fact: the first few posts of the original Pop Loser blog were powered by TypePad before I quickly moved over to WordPress. Now &lt;a href=&#34;https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html&#34;&gt;no posts will be powered by TypePad ever again&lt;/a&gt;. This story made me nostalgic about that era of the internet when people did things for the sake of doing them, but also were getting started on their personal brands before we called them “personal brands” and we talked way too much about marketing. Good times. Can’t believe they led to our current collective cultural crisis of connectivity. (Or our current connective crisis of culture collection?)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Anyway, blogging is back! Or at least this blog is back after a wonderful summer spent mostly in Vancouver and Victoria. (Not so fun fact: I’ve still never seen a fucking whale.) While I was away, Tinylytics said this site saw 700 hits on a random Thursday, which is odd because normally double digits is a pretty banger day around here. (Seriously you — literally you — are the only person who reads this. I love you for it, but surely you have better things to do?) Because I only track bare hits and don’t cookie anyone, there was no way to figure out what the fuck happened, but that the next day saw only 4 hits I suspect it was some kind of scraping situation. Honestly, it doesn’t matter because I am neither a military surveillance unit nor a commodity trading company, so &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.thisdaysportion.com/posts/contra-analytics/&#34;&gt;analytics are completely unnecessary&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Welcome to Pop Loser Volume 5.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Confusions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🎨 A really interesting story about an incredible collection of &lt;a href=&#34;https://airmail.news/issues/2025-7-26/fakes-nazis-and-fake-nazis&#34;&gt;fake art&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝She genuinely believed that she had in her possession objects that would change her life and even contribute to art history in some way. However, for years she had been dismissed as a crackpot. It didn’t help that she was a self-professed high priestess of a religion that worshipped the ancient Greek gods.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / A kinda dull story about an incredible collection of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/arts/design/weis-art-collection-christies.html&#34;&gt;real art&lt;/a&gt;. / Restoring a &lt;a href=&#34;https://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/saving-a-new-orleans-banksy&#34;&gt;Banksy&lt;/a&gt;. / 🗞️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://minifeed.net/welcome&#34;&gt;Minifeed&lt;/a&gt;, a curated blog reader. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://kill-the-newsletter.com/&#34;&gt;Kill the Newsletter&lt;/a&gt;, convert email newsletters into atom feeds. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://savewithfolio.com/&#34;&gt;Folio&lt;/a&gt;, a Pocket replacement. / 📁 Send big files with &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.swisstransfer.com/en-us&#34;&gt;SwissTransfer&lt;/a&gt;. / 📻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://vole.wtf/vtv/&#34;&gt;VTV&lt;/a&gt;, the weirdest &amp;amp; worst novelty songs ever created. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ldial.org/&#34;&gt;Ldial&lt;/a&gt;, the best independent and community radio stations in the US. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://iina.io/&#34;&gt;IINA&lt;/a&gt;, a Mac media player. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-music-station-s-ai-host-part-of-growing-trend-1.7622032&#34;&gt;AI DJs&lt;/a&gt; because why even have people do anything at all anymore. / The end of the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/the-end-of-the-late-night-band&#34;&gt;late-night band&lt;/a&gt;. / Professional &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.typebarmagazine.com/2025/05/25/professional-wrestling-a-multi-era-musical-analysis/&#34;&gt;wrestling&lt;/a&gt;, a multi-era musical analysis. / 🧠 &lt;a href=&#34;https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/06/27/the-wikipedia-test/&#34;&gt;The Wikipedia Test&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Before passing regulations, legislators should ask themselves whether their proposed laws would make it easier or harder for people to read, contribute to, and/or trust a project like Wikipedia.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 📚 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://thegreatestbooks.org/&#34;&gt;greatest books&lt;/a&gt; of all time. / 🧙 Build your own &lt;a href=&#34;https://5e-spellbook.app/&#34;&gt;5e spell book&lt;/a&gt;. (Big hit at my table.) / &lt;a href=&#34;https://bannerlessgames.itch.io/void-1680-am&#34;&gt;VOID 1680 AM&lt;/a&gt;, a game that is pretty impossible to explain before you play it. / 🦈 &lt;a href=&#34;https://mattround.com/usvsth3m/jaws/&#34;&gt;Jaws&lt;/a&gt;, a text adventure. / 🌒 &lt;a href=&#34;https://asciimoon.com/&#34;&gt;ASCIIMoon&lt;/a&gt;. / 📺 A &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://bits.ashleyblewer.com/halt-and-catch-fire-syllabus/&#34;&gt;Halt and Catch Fire&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; syllabus. / 🗿 &lt;a href=&#34;https://nice.rocks/&#34;&gt;Nice rocks&lt;/a&gt;. / 📽️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://thecassetteapp.com/&#34;&gt;Cassette&lt;/a&gt;, a home video player. / ⚒️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.tooooools.app/&#34;&gt;Tooooools&lt;/a&gt;. / 🌈&lt;a href=&#34;https://colormoods.co/&#34;&gt;ColorMoods&lt;/a&gt;. / 🤘 The arcane alphabets of &lt;a href=&#34;https://fontsinuse.com/uses/35835/the-arcane-alphabets-of-black-sabbath&#34;&gt;Black Sabbath&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/no-loitering-2008.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;492&#34; alt=&#34;No Loitering, Banksy, 2008&#34;&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/banksy/no-loitering-2008&#34;&gt;No Loitering&lt;/a&gt; / Banksy / 2008&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;explorations&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Explorations.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://album.link/rcmk6tnc8z9rd&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Who Is the Sky?&lt;/em&gt; by David Byrne &amp;amp; Ghost Train Orchestra&lt;/a&gt;. David Byrne remains sorta the best and I’ve been in love with GTO since their album of &lt;a href=&#34;https://album.link/dcgbdpscbs9nw&#34;&gt;Moondog&lt;/a&gt; covers. Really fun record. 🍿 &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(2025_film)&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Superman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. First you need to understand something — I spent my childhood obsessing over Superman. I cannot overstate just how much. I would wear my costume in the bathtub to recreate the scene where he’s drowning with the kryptonite necklace on (and also Miss Teschmacher’s kiss in that scene has somehow embedded itself in the part of my brain that think about sex). Being a Superman fan has been a fucking struggle without a decent movie since 1980 while every other comic book hero got theirs. So this movie &lt;em&gt;was a goddamned delight&lt;/em&gt;. 📚 I read the complete &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27679399W/James_Bond_007?edition=key:/books/OL59703863M&#34;&gt;James Bond&lt;/a&gt;. They aren’t good but they were enjoyable. Do with that what you will.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Pod Loser.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/rumours-willis.mp3&#34;&gt;Rumors Willis&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;iframe src=&#34;https://player.rss.com/podloser/2932817?theme=light&amp;v=2&amp;share=false&amp;about=false&#34; width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;202px&#34; title=&#34;Rumors Willis&#34; frameBorder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen scrolling=&#34;no&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rss.com/podcasts/podloser/2932817/&#34;&gt;Rumors Willis | RSS.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: NOFX, Distants, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, Stillhouse Junkies, Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox, Smooth Hound Smith, The Bon Bon Club, Gimson, Hole, and Dagny.&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/pl-5-3.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;381&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 5, No. 3&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;lets-go-ok-holing-and-other-confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Let’s go OK-holing (and other confusions).&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Things&lt;/em&gt; happened and as I am trying desperately not to post about happening &lt;em&gt;things&lt;/em&gt;, it was best to sit tight for a couple weeks. You know, let it all blow over. Which of course it never will.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’ve been substantially less online these last few years. First I dialled back a little and then a lot. And then I started killing accounts. In the aftermath of the &lt;em&gt;things&lt;/em&gt; that happened, I added TikTok to the kill pile after one or two of my searches were interpreted by the algo as permission to funnel me into a world of wild conspiracy theories. Like crazy, batshit stuff, and I couldn’t make it stop. (Previously my feed was mainly &lt;em&gt;Ted Lasso&lt;/em&gt; clips, just the James Spader bits of &lt;em&gt;Boston Legal&lt;/em&gt;, guys cracking open packs of baseball cards, recipes, and, yes, the dances. Love the dances.) While I probably could have retrained it in a couple weeks, the whole thing felt pretty gross. (And the app was a bit of a time sink anyway, which is often my motivator for deleting anything. I take my weekly iPhone screen-time report very seriously, though I won’t tell you what the total hours ever says and if I ever do, assume that number is a lie).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I guess my point is we should all log off because &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/fall-of-rome-united-states-america-decline-mike-duncan-1235430424/&#34;&gt;certain doom&lt;/a&gt; has never felt more, uh, certain.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;❝Our curse these days is that because of mass literacy, mass education, mass communications, we are subjected to every stupid thing that these people do, and we’re all highly aware of all the stupid things that they are doing to dismantle the perfectly, basically, perfectly functional society that we had going on.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Related (since we’re here anyway): &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4_CaTufIU&#34;&gt;the new aesthetics of fascism&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t click on either of those and instead just scrolled down to the fun link about things people stick in their holes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-6&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/the-rise-of-fascism.jpglarge.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;408&#34; alt=&#34;The Rise of Fascism, R. B. Kitaj&#34;&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/r-b-kitaj/the-rise-of-fascism&#34;&gt;The Rise of Fascism&lt;/a&gt; / R. B. Kitaj / 1975–1979&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-7&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Confusions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;💻 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/mac-app-flea-market/&#34;&gt;Mac app flea market&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://stacher.io/&#34;&gt;Stacher7&lt;/a&gt;, a good Mac app for downloading videos. / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://quarters.captaintouch.com/blog/posts/2025-09-20-tv-time-machine-a-raspberry-pi-that-plays-random-90s-tv.html&#34;&gt;TV Time Machine&lt;/a&gt;. (I might have to do this for my collection of holiday TV episodes.) / &lt;a href=&#34;https://tvsimulator.com/says/&#34;&gt;TV Simulator&lt;/a&gt;. / 🎙️ AI is about to &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/ai-podcast-start-up-plan-shows-1236361367/&#34;&gt;ruin podcasting&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/narrative-podcasts-gone-serial-over-my-dead-body-1235409945/&#34;&gt;Podcasting kind of sucks&lt;/a&gt; now anyway. &lt;mark&gt;❝More people than ever are listening to podcasts and talking about podcasts and thinking about starting their own podcasts. But the podcasts that are thriving are talk shows — increasingly celebrity-driven talk shows — that are cheap to make, can easily be turned into streaming YouTube videos, and command big ad dollars. Narrative podcasts — the multi-episode, investigative journalism-fueled shows that boomed after the release of &lt;em&gt;Serial&lt;/em&gt; in October 2014 — have followed an inverse trajectory.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / ⚾ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wsj.com/sports/baseball/make-me-commissioner-review-is-baseball-broken-d6988ede?st=ATfxhu&#34;&gt;Baseball&lt;/a&gt; also kind of sucks now. / 👾 &lt;a href=&#34;https://gisnep.com/doomscroll/&#34;&gt;DOOMscroll&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://dansinker.com/posts/2025-08-01-marquees/&#34;&gt;Video game marquees&lt;/a&gt;. / All of the &lt;a href=&#34;https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/all-54-lost-clickwheel-ipod-games-have-now-been-preserved-for-posterity/&#34;&gt;iPod clickwheel games&lt;/a&gt; have been saved. Bless. / 🕳️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://orifice.heirloom.co/&#34;&gt;Out of Orifice&lt;/a&gt;, a collection of 36 objects designed to enter our orifices. / 📻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://panamaplaylists.com/&#34;&gt;The Panama Playlists&lt;/a&gt;, collecting Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/17/the-epitome-of-amazingness-how-electroclash-brought-glamour-filth-and-fun-back-to-00s-music&#34;&gt;Electroclash&lt;/a&gt; still fucks. / 🚬 How many &lt;a href=&#34;https://howmanycigarettes.com/&#34;&gt;cigarettes&lt;/a&gt;? (The answer is “Never enough.”) / 🎨 &lt;a href=&#34;https://carta.archive-it.org/&#34;&gt;CARTA&lt;/a&gt;, archiving online art. / Go to museums, &lt;a href=&#34;https://sethpurcell.com/writing/screens-in-museums/&#34;&gt;look at screens&lt;/a&gt;. / 🔗 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.urltoany.com/&#34;&gt;URLtoAny&lt;/a&gt;, convert URLs to Markdown, PDF, Text, images and more. / 🎾 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/09/01/upshot/pickleball.html&#34;&gt;pickleball&lt;/a&gt; takeover. / 🤘 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp982r99rrmo&#34;&gt;Rock skipping&lt;/a&gt; (which some people apparently call “stone skimming” for some stupid reason) scandal! Best scandal since the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/fishing-weight-scandal-1.6605493&#34;&gt;weights in the fish thing&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-8&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Pod Loser.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/capitalism-for-losers.mp3&#34;&gt; Capitalism for Losers &lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;iframe src=&#34;https://player.rss.com/podloser/2932824?theme=light&amp;v=2&amp;share=false&amp;about=false&#34; width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;202px&#34; title=&#34;Capitalism for Losers&#34; frameBorder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen scrolling=&#34;no&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rss.com/podcasts/podloser/2932824/&#34;&gt;Capitalism for Losers | RSS.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: Mekons, Queen of Japan, John Cale, Superorganism, shame, Stereophonics, Golomb, media puzzle, Elton Motello, Wanda Jackson, Those Naughty Lumps, Jerskin Fendrix, The Last Dinner Party, A-F-R-O, KEG, Fiona Apple, girl in red, and Underworld w/ Iggy Pop.&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-9&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782074814/B85BD639-DD5B-47D8-8E18-272BFEBE3E94_ezoutd.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;381&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 5, No. 5&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;unskinny-slop&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Unskinny slop.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Re-read &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98484W/Player_Piano?edition=key:/books/OL7439289M&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Player Piano&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; for the first time in a long time:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;❝A fully automatic setup like that makes culture very cheap. Matter of fact, culture’s so cheap, a man figured he could insulate his house cheaper with books and prints than he could with rockwool. Don’t think it’s true, but it’s a cute story with a good point. The way they keep culture so cheap is by knowing in advance what and how much of it people want. They get it right, right down to the color of the jacket. Gutenberg would be amazed.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Several of the less-talked-about Vonnegut books — &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98484W/Player_Piano?edition=key:/books/OL7439289M&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Player Piano&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98489W/Jailbird?edition=key:/books/OL4409532M&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jailbird&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL98481W/God_bless_you_Mr._Rosewater?edition=key:/books/OL7439280M&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;God Bless You Mr. Rosewater&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; — are pretty on point these days. &lt;em&gt;Brahouna, Takaru&lt;/em&gt;, indeed. Kurt don’t miss.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-10&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/the-entertainment-machine-1961.jpglarge.jpg&#34; width=&#34;595&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;The Entertainment Machine, Peter Phillips, 1961&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/peter-phillips/the-entertainment-machine-1961&#34;&gt;The Entertainment Machine&lt;/a&gt;, Peter Phillips, 1961&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-11&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Confusions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🌐 The last days of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media/&#34;&gt;social media&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝These are the last days of social media, not because we lack content, but because the attention economy has neared its outer limit — we have exhausted the capacity to care. There is more to watch, read, click and react to than ever before — an endless buffet of stimulation. But novelty has become indistinguishable from noise. Every scroll brings more, and each addition subtracts meaning. We are indeed drowning.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / A long profile on &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/06/tim-berners-lee-invented-the-world-wide-web-now-he-wants-to-save-it&#34;&gt;Tim Berners-Lee&lt;/a&gt;. / Create a &lt;a href=&#34;https://phishyurl.com/&#34;&gt;phishy URL&lt;/a&gt;. / 🎨 The found art and identity of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/arts/michaelina-wautier-kunsthistorisches-museum.html&#34;&gt;Michaelina Wautier&lt;/a&gt;. / Auctioning &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/bob-ross-auction-1.7653228&#34;&gt;Bob Ross&lt;/a&gt; paintings to raise money for public television. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://interludedocs.com/&#34;&gt;Interlude Docs&lt;/a&gt;, a digital archive committed to “archiving the impermanent.” / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.marinaminis.com/&#34;&gt;Marina Minis&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://monodraw.helftone.com/&#34;&gt;Monodraw&lt;/a&gt;, ASCII art editor. / 🌎 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.thescaleoflife.com/&#34;&gt;The scale of life&lt;/a&gt;. / ✍️ What the fuck happened to &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ft.com/content/e6373dc6-e1f4-462a-8d63-1580c876c3c4&#34;&gt;designers&lt;/a&gt; and design? &lt;mark&gt;❝That social purpose which accompanied the birth of design as a profession quickly dissipated, hijacked by capitalism as a sales schtick, a way of selling newer, more fashionable, more expensive products. Modernism became marketing.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 📷 The 25 most influential &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t-magazine/magazine-covers-esquire-rolling-stone.html&#34;&gt;magazine covers&lt;/a&gt; of all time. / 🎸 Trailer for &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/RxBYxFZccks?si=BLu2InMYXgn-TKz7&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ozzy: No Escape From Now&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. / The night &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.openculture.com/2025/10/the-night-john-belushi-booked-the-punk-band-fear-on-snl-1981.html&#34;&gt;Fear got banned&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;em&gt;SNL&lt;/em&gt;. / Every televised &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd8yQE4S6pQ&#34;&gt;Joy Division&lt;/a&gt; performance. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://thequietus.com/interviews/strange-world-of/soulwax-greatest-hits/&#34;&gt;Soulwax&lt;/a&gt; have a new album. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://thequietus.com/news/peaches-reveals-first-album-in-a-decade-no-lube-so-rude/&#34;&gt;Peaches&lt;/a&gt;, too! / Bill’s &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/bills-beatles-collection&#34;&gt;Beatles&lt;/a&gt; collection. / 📰 The enduring value of &lt;a href=&#34;https://daily.jstor.org/the-enduring-value-of-student-newspapers/&#34;&gt;student newspapers&lt;/a&gt;. / 👾 &lt;a href=&#34;https://vectrex.com/vectrex-mini-details/&#34;&gt;Vectrex Mini&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://geonot.github.io/retrocide-mono/&#34;&gt;Retrocide&lt;/a&gt;, a very cool monospaced font with no descenders.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-12&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782074854/D18A737A-F4FD-4520-BD16-773BC01C9BD0_n7h0m6.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;381&#34; alt=&#34;A stylized, vintage camera with a strap is depicted in a pop art style against a bright yellow background.&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;picture-miss&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Picture miss.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Somewhere between quitting Instagram and trying very hard to spend less time fingerbanging my phone, taking pictures got a bit lost. Last week, while digging around my basement for a very specific cable stored in a box filled exclusively with very specific cables, I found my trusty old Ricoh GX100; a great camera that you can also just stick in your pocket. Ansel Adams said something about how photographs are made, not taken. That’s not me. I have no real natural aptitude for photography, but I do have a natural impulse to take pictures. Snapshots. Moments. Candids. Whatever.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I set up a &lt;a href=&#34;https://pixelfed.ca/poploser&#34;&gt;Pixelfed&lt;/a&gt; (which I do not fully understand how to use — this federated stuff is conceptually cool, but practically it remains super fucking awkward), because nobody looks at the &lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/photos/&#34;&gt;photos&lt;/a&gt; page of this website except my mom (the real victim in my Instagram exit). I am enjoying it a lot, but nobody I know uses it (or at least I haven’t figured out how to find and follow them), which raises some questions about my social media use: if I find peace in a social network because it is slow and mostly unpopulated, is it still social? Or am I really hoping for an anti-social network, where I have other people — I even need other people — but I don’t necessarily &lt;em&gt;want&lt;/em&gt; other people. Or maybe my Platonic ideal of a social network is one filled with people that offers zero interaction.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Doesn’t that sound nice?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-13&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782074889/820DD2CF-6E96-4858-BEF2-940B2CCF55ED_d0c92l.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;456&#34; alt=&#34;Reseaux des stoppages, Marcel Duchamp, 1914&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/network-of-stoppages-1914&#34;&gt;Reseaux des stoppages&lt;/a&gt;, Marcel Duchamp, 1914&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-14&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Confusions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;💬 What made &lt;a href=&#34;https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/what-made-blogging-different&#34;&gt;blogging&lt;/a&gt; different. &lt;mark&gt;❝I think of this now as the difference between living in a house you built that requires some effort to visit and going into a town square where there are not particularly rigorous laws about whether or not someone can punch you in the face.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🍪 &lt;a href=&#34;https://nednex.com/en/the-internets-biggest-annoyance-why-cookie-laws-should-target-browsers-not-websites/&#34;&gt;Cookie laws&lt;/a&gt; should target browsers, not websites. / 🖨️ The Sherwood Forest &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.sherwoodforestzinelibrary.org/virtual-zine-library-recently-added&#34;&gt;Virtual Zine Library&lt;/a&gt;. / 🦋 The great &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/global/2025/oct/04/great-butterfly-heist-how-collector-stole-thousands-butterflies-from-australian-museums&#34;&gt;butterfly heist&lt;/a&gt;. / 🥫 Looking back at &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10/15/death-love-taxes-and-beauty-among-other-issues/&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Philosophy of Andy Warhol&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Andy Warhol. / 🎤 Slipping away from myself at the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/10/10/slipping-away-from-myself-at-the-kpop-demon-hunters-sing-along/&#34;&gt;KPop Demon Hunters&lt;/a&gt; sing-along. &lt;mark&gt;❝But that night, in the Regal Alhambra Renaissance theater—a multiplex chain location that has nothing to do with regality, thirteenth-century Islamic architecture, or the Renaissance—we weren’t so sure about the value of authenticity. We were, after all, wearing costumes.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 📐 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.opensourceecology.org/&#34;&gt;Open-source blueprints for civilization&lt;/a&gt;. / 🤐 New &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wired.com/story/the-zipper-is-getting-its-first-major-upgrade-in-100-years/&#34;&gt;zipper&lt;/a&gt; dropped! / 🔴 Here’s how they &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.core77.com/posts/138608/Heres-How-They-Clean-the-Balls-in-a-Ball-Pit&#34;&gt;clean the balls&lt;/a&gt; in a ball pit. / 🚀 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://spaceexplorationlogoarchive.webflow.io/&#34;&gt;Space Exploration Logo&lt;/a&gt; Archive. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanets/immersive/exoplanet-travel-bureau/&#34;&gt;Exoplanet Travel Bureau&lt;/a&gt;. / ⚱️ People who died: &lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/diane-keatons-solo-act&#34;&gt;Diane Keaton&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.joeposnanski.com/p/daniel-naroditsky-and-the-chase-of-beauty&#34;&gt;Daniel Naroditsky&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/arts/music/ace-frehley-dead.html&#34;&gt;Ace Frehley&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/waiting-on-dangelo&#34;&gt;D’Angelo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/fashion/soo-catwoman-dead.html&#34;&gt;Soo Catwoman&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/arts/gilles-larrain-dead.html&#34;&gt;Gilles Larrain&lt;/a&gt;. / Also dead: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.heise.de/en/background/Obituary-Farewell-to-robots-txt-1994-2025-10766991.html&#34;&gt;robots.txt&lt;/a&gt;. / ☎️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nativeunion.com/products/pop-phone&#34;&gt;POP Phone&lt;/a&gt;. I guess? / 🚧 GifCities, a GeoCities animated gif search engine.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-15&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Pod Loser.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/best-care-anywhere-4077.mp3&#34;&gt;Best Care Anywhere &lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;iframe src=&#34;https://player.rss.com/podloser/2932795?theme=light&amp;v=2&amp;share=false&amp;about=false&#34; width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;202px&#34; title=&#34;Best Care Anywhere&#34; frameBorder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen scrolling=&#34;no&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rss.com/podcasts/podloser/2932795/&#34;&gt;Best Care Anywhere | RSS.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: Pixies, Dehd, Waylon Jennings, Cab Calloway, Rob Base, The Streets, Mamalarky, Parlor Greens, David Byrne &amp;amp; Ghost Train Orchestra, Madi Diaz, Honeyglaze, Liam Lynch, Hot Hot Heat, Viagra Boys, Bleeding Through, Lady &amp;amp; Bird, and Gene Austin.&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-16&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782073672/0E2FF757-B88A-4648-A367-466370624369_fblciz.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;381&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 5, No. 8&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;the-hollowed-men&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;The hollowed men.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;My wife and I go for a walk almost every morning. This is our time to complain about things to and with each other. She complains about practical things, like work and meetings and some oddly difficult people she meets in her day. My complaints are both more specific and more general — more existential — like how the world will end not with a bang, but &lt;a href=&#34;https://harpers.org/archive/2025/11/the-goon-squad-daniel-kolitz-porn-masturbation-loneliness/&#34;&gt;with the motionless gesture of a thousand men whimpering away on their own prickly pears&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;mark&gt;❝What they apparently hadn’t considered was that the porn alone might be enough, that at sufficient speed and in sufficient quantity it could function as a workable substitute for life itself.❞&lt;/mark&gt; Good lord, that’s some grim shit. My wife has rightly threatened not to walk with me anymore.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Not unrelated:&lt;/mark&gt; There’s now a &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/mobile-sports-betting-gambling-addiction-fanduel-draftkings-1235444172/&#34;&gt;casino in everyone’s pocket&lt;/a&gt;. It’s going poorly.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-17&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782073736/22FC8C5E-1F00-4D16-81A6-651E9255AC75_x9msbc.jpg&#34; width=&#34;595&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;Looking at The Great Masturbator by Salvador Dali&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/salvador-dali/seated-figure-contemplating-a-great-tapeworm-masturbator&#34;&gt;Untitled (Looking at The Great Masturbator)&lt;/a&gt; / Salvador Dali / 1981&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-18&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Confusions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🤖 Hi, it’s me, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/hi-its-me-wikipedia-and-i-am-ready-for-your-apology&#34;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;, and I am ready for your apology. &lt;mark&gt;❝Listen, in some ways, I get it. When I came on the scene in 2001, I probably seemed pretty unsavory compared to the competitors. But that was when academic research happened in libraries and George W. Bush was considered the stupidest president. Tell me, how have you guardians of facts been doing recently? (See also: Techno-Feudalist Infocide.)❞&lt;/mark&gt; / Also: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.404media.co/grokipedia-is-the-antithesis-of-everything-that-makes-wikipedia-good-useful-and-human/&#34;&gt;Grokipedia&lt;/a&gt; is the antithesis of everything that makes Wikipedia good, useful and human. / Frank Chimero’s treatise on &lt;a href=&#34;https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/beyond-the-machine/&#34;&gt;AI and creating&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝I wouldn’t want an irregular AI in my bank app, but in a creative workflow, hallucinating feels like the point of it all.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / AI is a &lt;a href=&#34;https://thewalrus.ca/ai-hype/&#34;&gt;false god&lt;/a&gt;. / 🧑‍💻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://alivetheory.net/&#34;&gt;alive internet theory&lt;/a&gt;. / Why does new technology feel like it was &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/magazine/ai-tech-industry-sora-science-fiction.html&#34;&gt;inspired by dystopian sci-fi&lt;/a&gt;? / 📰 The FBI is looking for the person(s) behind one of our greatest resources, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to-unmask-owner-of-infamous-archive-is-site/&#34;&gt;Archive.today&lt;/a&gt;. / 📔 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/11/the-cute-yellow-old-farmers-almanac-isnt-the-one-shutting-down/&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Farmer’s Almanac&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is shutting down (but not the one you’re thinking of). / The (near-complete) &lt;a href=&#34;https://wholeearth.info/&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Whole Earth Catalog&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; archive still exists. / Digging up &lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/unearthing-the-hidden-history-of-a-singular-trans-punk-zine&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Gendertrash From Hell&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. / 🖼️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.semantic.art/&#34;&gt;Semantic.art&lt;/a&gt;. / ⌚ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.thomasmoes.com/52obsessions&#34;&gt;52 weeks&lt;/a&gt; of obsessions. (Example: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.thomasmoes.com/52obsessions/soviet-time-machines&#34;&gt;Soviet watches&lt;/a&gt;.) / 👾 Want: &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.artofatari.com/&#34;&gt;The Art of Atari&lt;/a&gt;. / 📓 Already Have (but you should Want and, like, Get): Scott Boms’ &lt;a href=&#34;https://scottboms.com/library/context-window&#34;&gt;Context Window&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4391206593/context-window-book?etsrc=sdt&#34;&gt;buy link&lt;/a&gt;). / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhNBaxBOtcU&#34;&gt;Sitcoms that primetime forgot&lt;/a&gt; (I watched all 2 hours of this and not once did it get old). / 🔤 &lt;a href=&#34;https://spacetypegenerator.com/&#34;&gt;Space Type Generator&lt;/a&gt;. / 🫥 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.durves.com/&#34;&gt;Durves&lt;/a&gt;. / 🧤 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-canadian-glove-museum&#34;&gt;The Canadian Glove Museum&lt;/a&gt;. / ⌨️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://icm.museum/&#34;&gt;The Interim Computer Museum&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-19&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;extensions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Extensions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;As has been mentioned repeatedly in recent weeks, I was a victim of &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnolia&#34;&gt;The Great Ma.gnolia Crash&lt;/a&gt; of aught-nine. Since, my bookmarks have been a mess moved through a dizzying array of online tools, including Pinboard, Evernote, Pocket, Instapaper, Delicious, Raindrop, Notion and so many others. I’ve declared link bankruptcy no fewer than five times. It’s a fucking wreck, and I decided it was time to get my shit together and find something that actually works for me instead of this hodgepodge of sites that either look like that are one ill-timed bus accident from total collapse, or use that shady subscription model that’s become the hallmark of our time (or at least the hallmark that isn’t all of the icky chronic masturbation, but also I might not know what a hallmark is).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Enter &lt;a href=&#34;https://goodlinks.app/&#34;&gt;GoodLinks&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;✅ Offline with (iCloud) syncing between phone and laptop. &lt;br&gt;✅ One-time price gets you “forever” access with a year of updates. &lt;br&gt;✅ Tagging system for saving links. &lt;br&gt;✅ Reading system for, uh, reading links, but also highlights and notes, also saved locally. &lt;br&gt;✅ Import/export in all your favourite flavours. &lt;br&gt;✅ THAT’S IT. WHY WAS THAT SO HARD?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Anyway, great piece of software. Hard recommend.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-20&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782073788/E08CC068-C774-4EE8-93DC-6121D8D0BA43_iy0cqw.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;381&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 5, No. 9 — All for raught&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;all-for-raught&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;All for raught.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’m locked into &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.timehop.com/&#34;&gt;TimeHop&lt;/a&gt;, an app that surfaces “On This Day” content from your phone and social media accounts. As I’ve killed more and more of those accounts, the app was left doing what the Photos app already does on its own — “Here’s pictures from this day.” Normally I’d delete an app that’s become superfluous to my phone’s default functions, but I’m on a nine-year streak with TimeHop. That’s 3,306 consecutive days popping it open, according to the final screen after I swipe through all the photos. No way I’m stopping now!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Last week, I remembered that older versions of Pop Loser cross-posted to a set-it-and-forget-it &lt;a href=&#34;https://poploser.tumblr.com/&#34;&gt;Tumblr clone&lt;/a&gt;. I plugged that into TimeHop and now I get to see my old near-daily posts.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The result has been both embarrassing and infuriating.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;At no point in my life have I particularly enjoyed the me from 10–15 years ago. 27 year old me hated 17 year old me. 37 year old me would have a lot of things to say to 27 year old me. 47 year old me doesn’t want to talk about it anymore. Embarrassing ideas, bad writing and an annoying enthusiasm for the things that have wrought the ruin of, you know, society and the world and everything.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Even more frustrating is the fact that &lt;em&gt;most of the links don’t work&lt;/em&gt;. It’s just a collection of 404s and broken redirects. Some of that isn’t my fault; linkrot is everywhere as our collective history gets bought, sold, re-filed, sunsetted and ultimately deleted. I regret my own stupid decision to rely on third-party link shorteners and click trackers. More so, I hate my own complicity in creating this tangled mess of entropy and decay.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Every younger version of me remains a fucking idiot.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Related things:&lt;/mark&gt; The &lt;a href=&#34;https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/the-subversive-hyperlink/&#34;&gt;subversive hyperlink&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Links form the whole. Without links, there is no whole. No links means no web, only silos. Isolation. The absence of connection.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / The Internet Archive has now saved over &lt;a href=&#34;https://blog.archive.org/trillion/&#34;&gt;1-trillion webpages&lt;/a&gt;. / More about the pressure to reveal the owner(s) of &lt;a href=&#34;https://adguard-dns.io/en/blog/archive-today-adguard-dns-block-demand.html&#34;&gt;Archive.today&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-21&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782073833/977915DA-453B-4368-99D6-F52D8ACD7693_smorey.jpg&#34; width=&#34;519&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;Erased de Kooning by Robert Rauschenberg, 1953&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-rauschenberg/erased-de-kooning-1953&#34;&gt;Erased de Kooning&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rauschenberg&#34;&gt;Robert Rauschenberg&lt;/a&gt; / 1953&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-22&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Confusions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🏬 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/magazine/dying-mall-beauty.html&#34;&gt;Shopping malls&lt;/a&gt; are the Roman ruins of our civilization: &lt;mark&gt;❝I have never ached for a store before — yet the enormous corporate shopping mall, in dying, has become something moving. Melancholic yet mundane, it now functions as a safe space to go and get lost in my own thoughts. Is it the freedom that I like or the 1980s big-box kitsch of the place, which now feels like some liminal waiting room? Maybe I like the mall simply for the rare and singular holiness of a space — any space — that is right on the verge of emptiness.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🧠 Welcome to the golden age of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/18/are-we-living-in-a-golden-age-of-stupidity-technology&#34;&gt;stupidity&lt;/a&gt;. / 🔪 How &lt;a href=&#34;https://talkingpointsmemo.com/tpm-25/private-equity-killed-media&#34;&gt;private equity&lt;/a&gt; killed media: &lt;mark&gt;❝Only chumps make money by selling goods or services these days; the real geniuses rely on management fees, deal fees, dividend recapitalizations, real estate deals, and the like.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🗄️ The &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://byte.tsundoku.io/&#34;&gt;Byte&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; magazine visual archive. / 💾 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://vole.wtf/doctype/&#34;&gt;DocType&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, a magazine with code for 10 web apps. / 🤫 A world without &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/nov/11/spotify-music-streaming-companies&#34;&gt;Spotify&lt;/a&gt;? / 👾 Play &lt;a href=&#34;https://chronodivide.com/&#34;&gt;Command &amp;amp; Conquer: Red Alert 2&lt;/a&gt; in your browser. (Saving this for the holidays.) / Microsoft has open sourced the &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11/20/preserving-code-that-shaped-generations-zork-i-ii-and-iii-go-open-source&#34;&gt;Zork&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; games. / 🍁 AI can’t be &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/crtc-canadian-content-9.6983364&#34;&gt;CanCon&lt;/a&gt;. / 📻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/style/college-radio-kxlu.html&#34;&gt;College radio&lt;/a&gt; is still cool. / 🎼 &lt;a href=&#34;https://starsofthelidforever.com/&#34;&gt;Stars Of the Lid&lt;/a&gt; forever. / 📖 &lt;a href=&#34;https://dictionary.cambridge.org/editorial/word-of-the-year&#34;&gt;Parasocial&lt;/a&gt; is Cambridge’s word of the year. / 🚧 &lt;a href=&#34;https://public.monster/&#34;&gt;public.monster&lt;/a&gt;, an homage to 90s ~/PUBLIC_HTML hosting. / 🛠️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://koolyz.com/en&#34;&gt;Koolyz&lt;/a&gt;, free online tools for everyone. / 🎨 &lt;a href=&#34;https://colorpalette.pro/&#34;&gt;Color Palette Pro&lt;/a&gt;, a colour palette… for pros. / 📊 How pop music fell in love with &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/nov/19/otto-neurath-isotypes-infographics-album-covers-wien-museum-vienna&#34;&gt;socialist infographics&lt;/a&gt;. / 🔠 The return of the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/serif-instrument-skinny-font-e22b8054&#34;&gt;skinny serif&lt;/a&gt;. / 🐅 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.npr.org/2025/11/18/nx-s1-5564064/calvin-and-hobbes-bill-watterson-40-years-comic-strip-lee-salem&#34;&gt;Calvin &amp;amp; Hobbes&lt;/a&gt; is 40! / 🍽️ Who was the &lt;a href=&#34;https://yalereview.org/article/alicia-kennedy-who-was-the-foodie&#34;&gt;foodie&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;mark&gt;❝Preparing, serving, and eating food is now too often only a prelude to posting. Being a foodie is no longer about experience and knowledge. Documentation is in; expertise is out.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-23&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;explorations-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Explorations.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Sometime last year I encountered Jamie Branch’s album, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://song.link/jamiebranch2&#34;&gt;Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. It’s jazz and it’s folk. It’s sometimes weird and often beautiful. But mostly it was just one of those albums that came along at exactly the right time to hit me straight in my feels. I played the shit out of it and was really sad to learn she’s died two years earlier at the age of 39. There is a new re-release of her second album, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://album.link/jamiebranch&#34;&gt;FLY OR DIE II: bird dogs of paradise&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, now available. That’s mostly only interesting in you want the slick vinyl version, but it’s also a really great album and it seemed like a good time to link to both.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-24&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Pod Loser.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/beatle-your-meatle.mp3&#34;&gt;Beatle Your Meatle&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;iframe src=&#34;https://player.rss.com/podloser/2932806?theme=light&amp;v=2&amp;share=false&amp;about=false&#34; width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;202px&#34; title=&#34;Beatle Your Meatle&#34; frameBorder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen scrolling=&#34;no&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rss.com/podcasts/podloser/2932806/&#34;&gt;Beatle Your Meatle | RSS.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: Bill Withers, Roy Redmond, Sonic Youth, Pat Benatar, The Replacements, Kurt Cobain, Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Stevie Wonder, Arthur Conley, Aimee Mann, Fiona Apple, Regina Spektor, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Dolly Parton, The Carpenters, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, and Junior Parker.&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-25&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782074082/6970E6D9-7818-4569-A725-184C0A3404F8_hcj7tx.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;381&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Lose Vol. 5, No. 11&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;shingle-bells&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Shingle bells.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;I have come down with shingles. On my face. It sucks. One more mixtape to come, but otherwise Pop Loser is officially entering torpor until March. Have a wonderful holiday season. Rest up. Next year is going to be a big one.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-26&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782074107/641A001F-AD1A-48D0-8FB5-4B1598664FBC_um5fgx.jpg&#34; width=&#34;595&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;Crucifixion painting by George Stefanescu.&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/george-stefanescu/crucifixion-1991&#34;&gt;Crucifixion&lt;/a&gt;, George Stefanescu, 1991&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-27&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-6&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Confusions.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🚽 Rusty Foster’s extremely good &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.todayintabs.com/p/let-s-see-what-s-going-on-down-at-the-piss-factory&#34;&gt;Piss Factory&lt;/a&gt; metaphor. &lt;mark&gt;❝Pretty quickly someone invents the Generative Piss Transformer, or “GPT,” which can pump out unbelievable quantities of extremely realistic piss. Can it do this cheaply? No, not at all. Is the piss being generated by this new technology in demand? Also not really.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / An illuminating conversation with the man who was &lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/willem-dafoes-stunt-penis-antichrist&#34;&gt;Willem Dafoe’s stunt penis&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝What this means is that somewhere out there lives a humble man whose penis stood in for Willem Dafoe’s. Who is he? I tracked him down. His name is Horst Stramka.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 👾 Vacation goal: Master &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://relaxing.run/blag/posts/top-gun-landing/&#34;&gt;Top Gun&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; for the NES. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://dos.zone/mp/?lobby=*&#34;&gt;DOS.Zone&lt;/a&gt;, there goes the holidays. / 🎧 &lt;a href=&#34;https://retrospekt.com/&#34;&gt;Retrospekt&lt;/a&gt;, refurbished retro tech. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://walkman.land/modern&#34;&gt;Modern Walkmans&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://intertapes.net/&#34;&gt;Intertapes&lt;/a&gt;, a collection of found cassettes. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://473999.net/pulse&#34;&gt;Pulse&lt;/a&gt;, music streaming rooms (a concept I’ve always loved but never seems to take off). / 🏀 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/01/kurtis-blow-still-blowing&#34;&gt;Kurtis Blow&lt;/a&gt;, still blowing. / 👨‍💻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://streetpass.social/&#34;&gt;Street Pass&lt;/a&gt;, a plugin to help you overcome Mastodon’s greatest challenge: finding people. 📺 On “&lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/how-a-campy-1970s-game-show-became-part-of-canadas-national-lexicon&#34;&gt;gong show&lt;/a&gt;.” &lt;mark&gt;❝By this point, gong show was a two-way Canadian player, on the ice and off. Later that year, a Conservative party politician complained about the Liberal party government. “What a gong show. They rip the country off and we give them more money.”❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 📚 &lt;a href=&#34;https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2026&#34;&gt;Standard Ebooks&lt;/a&gt;’ public domain additions for 2026. / In praise of &lt;a href=&#34;https://lithub.com/nothing-better-than-a-whole-lot-of-books-in-praise-of-bibliomania/&#34;&gt;bibliomania&lt;/a&gt;. / The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/books/article-globe-100-archive-best-book-recommendations-lists/&#34;&gt;Globe 100&lt;/a&gt; book archive. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.placestoread.xyz/&#34;&gt;Places to read&lt;/a&gt;. / Stamps of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/blogs/personal/perspectives/graphic-novelists-2025/&#34;&gt;Canadian comic book makers&lt;/a&gt;. (I stuck a &lt;em&gt;Scott Pilgrim&lt;/em&gt;/Bryan Lee O’Malley to this very laptop. And a &lt;em&gt;Ducks&lt;/em&gt;/Kate Beaton to my water bottle.) / 📰 Real-time &lt;a href=&#34;https://forty.news/&#34;&gt;streaming news from 40 years ago&lt;/a&gt;. / 📅 Flummox Industries’ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.flummoxindustries.com/shop1/p/2026calendar&#34;&gt;2026 calendar&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://neatnik.net/calendar/?year=2026&#34;&gt;The one-year page&lt;/a&gt;. / 🗄️ An &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.modernillustration.org/&#34;&gt;archive of illustration&lt;/a&gt; from c.1950–1975. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://buttondown.com/perfectsentences&#34;&gt;Perfect Sentences&lt;/a&gt;, a newsletter. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/make-do-vend&#34;&gt;Bubblegum machines&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://uxdesign.cc/locksmith-stickers-are-annoying-but-kind-of-genius-85690b7ae045&#34;&gt;Locksmith stickers&lt;/a&gt;. / 🧑‍🎨 &lt;a href=&#34;https://motif.works/&#34;&gt;Motif&lt;/a&gt;, pixel grids. / ⚾ Sports writers remember &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://awfulannouncing.com/online-outlets/sportswriters-remember-grantland-writers-paradise.html&#34;&gt;Grantland&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Early articles skewed long and personal, to occasional mockery. But everybody wanted to write for Grantland.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-28&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img class=&#34;art&#34; src=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2026/museick.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;381&#34; alt=&#34;2025: Muse/Ick&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4&gt;Pod Loser.&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2026/muse-ick-2025.mp3&#34;&gt;2025: Muse/Ick&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;iframe src=&#34;https://player.rss.com/podloser/2932810?theme=light&amp;v=2&amp;share=false&amp;about=false&#34; width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;202px&#34; title=&#34;2025: Muse/Ick&#34; frameBorder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen scrolling=&#34;no&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rss.com/podcasts/podloser/2932810/&#34;&gt;2025: Muse/Ick | RSS.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: Sloan, Golomb, Sunday Cruise, Home Counties, Jolie Laide, Neko Case, Tyler Ballgame, Stereolab, Soulwax, Tune-Yards, Smerz, Joy Crookes, Viagra Boys, HotWax, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, BIG SPECIAL, Upchuck, Soft Bait, Lambrini Girls, MADMADMAD, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Girl Group, Young Fathers, Foxwarren, David Byrne, and Saya Gray.&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-29&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 4https://tylerhellard.com/poploser/vol4/Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/poploser/vol4/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pop-loser-vol-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 4 &lt;a href=&#34;#pop-loser-vol-4&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;January 24, 2025 – July 8, 2025.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Some of the formatting might have been lost when migrating this page.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782071881/5B74C751-2223-49EC-8158-C31DBADEB139_usdfe9.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 4&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;four-the-fecal-by-the-fecal&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Four the fecal, by the fecal. &lt;a href=&#34;#four-the-fecal-by-the-fecal&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’m not interested in telling you how to live your life. You wanna keep scrolling Twitter, dunking on halfwits and sharing every thought rattling around in your head, fill your boots. But I’m (finally) out. (And this is not to slag on the thoughts rattling around in your head, the only thing I’m more tired of than other people’s opinions on everything is my own.) My tweets are closed, my Facebook shuttered (with the exception of Messages and WhatsApp because I haven’t figured out how to peel myself away from things being organized for my children (never mind the Meta Horizons account necessary for my son’s Quest headset, which I enjoy “fishing” on… I know, hypocrisy abounds, but I’m working on it)), my Instagram nuked, and Threads was boring af anyway (unless you have a really strong (and possibly unhealthy) opinion on &lt;em&gt;The Last Jedi&lt;/em&gt; or were traumatized by &lt;em&gt;Superman III&lt;/em&gt;). I enjoy Mastodon, but I really need to find more people to follow. Bluesky feels like Twitter and the screen-cap-dunk people are getting through my many filters, so I don’t actually read it very much. (Okay, maybe I’m telling &lt;em&gt;those&lt;/em&gt; people how to live their lives — &lt;em&gt;stop it, motherfuckers, stop stop stop&lt;/em&gt;, you’re just making everyone else miserable.) That’s probably enough parentheticals for now.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So what do we all do with this new &lt;em&gt;time&lt;/em&gt; we have been gifted by ignoring rapid-fire news and even-rapid-firer takes and replies and quips and dopamine hits? I don’t know, get a hobby. &lt;a href=&#34;https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-survive-being-online/&#34;&gt;Buy a radio&lt;/a&gt;. Go outside or take a nap or learn to bake. I don’t care. Be free and happy. Take some of your fucks and give them somewhere else. Like I said, I don’t want to tell you how to do you, but it’s going to be a long four years and we could all use a little insulation from, you know, &lt;em&gt;all that shit&lt;/em&gt;. Call it self-care, if that’s your kink. &lt;mark&gt;Related:&lt;/mark&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/is-social-media-more-like-cigarettes-or-junk-food&#34;&gt;Is social media more like cigarettes or junk food&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;mark&gt;❝History suggests that our collective approach to social media may be approaching a fork in the road. […] These laws are more like junk-food regulations than cigarette bans. They aim to make the product in question safer and give families more tools to manage their harms, but ultimately keep them available to all ages.❞&lt;/mark&gt; I’m starting to think it’s more like punching yourself in the face for fun, but milage clearly varies.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Welcome to Volume 4 (technically untitled, but “4” is what the heads call it). It’s earlier than I thought, and that’ll either go good or bad.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782071973/0B10E72E-5A59-42D4-84DF-F0544D71C353_e1rau8.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;850&#34; alt=&#34;The Social Model, Dr Alesha Sivartha, 1898&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://pdimagearchive.org/images/a210a753-4c89-4c6a-a0c6-51f0a4a85aa4/&#34;&gt;The Social Model&lt;/a&gt; / Dr Alesha Sivartha / 1898&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📰 Portrait of the artist as an &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/a-portrait-of-the-artist-as-an-amazon-reviewer&#34;&gt;Amazon reviewer&lt;/a&gt;. / A weekend at the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/planet-puppet/?ref=thebrowser.com&#34;&gt;ventriloquist convention&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Dicky’s daddy’s hand was shoved somewhere near Dicky’s brain stem. My throat was in my stomach. Their hearts were in vaudeville. But we were all in Kentucky.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / I am an &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-an-apple-news-article-come-and-get-me-baby&#34;&gt;Apple News+&lt;/a&gt; article. &lt;mark&gt;❝You find a link and think you’ve done it—that you’ve successfully pierced my skin—but no. This website has a paywall too. I relish your devilish smirk falling. If this were a chess match, I’d say, “Check,” but this is so much more. This is lust.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://paywallreader.com&#34;&gt;Paywall Reader&lt;/a&gt;, a “legal” way to bypass paywalls. / 📚 &lt;a href=&#34;https://standardebooks.org/blog/public-domain-day-2025&#34;&gt;Standard Ebooks&lt;/a&gt; has added some new titles entering the public &lt;code&gt;domain&lt;/code&gt; this year, including &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/c-s-forester/brown-on-resolution&#34;&gt;Brown On Resolution&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; by CS Forester (I love boat shit and CSF is the king). / &lt;a href=&#34;https://hyperessays.net/&#34;&gt;HyperEssays&lt;/a&gt;, a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne. / 🗄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://pdimagearchive.org&#34;&gt;The Public Domain Image Archive&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/index.html&#34;&gt;Nokia Design Archive&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://every-color-ever.agiliq.com/?color=Shadowed-Faded-Luxuriant-Light-Orange&#34;&gt;Every Color Ever&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.oldmapsonline.org/en#position=6/51.086/-114.023&#34;&gt;Old Maps Online&lt;/a&gt;. / 👾 &lt;a href=&#34;https://playclassic.games/games/&#34;&gt;Online Classic Games&lt;/a&gt;, including the OG &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://playclassic.games/games/4x-dos-games-online/play-sid-meiers-civilization-online/&#34;&gt;Civilization&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. / Atari 2600 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://meatfighter.com/pitfall-web/&#34;&gt;Pitfall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://eblong.com/infocom/visi-zork1/&#34;&gt;The Visible Zorker&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Zork&lt;/em&gt; but also inside &lt;em&gt;Zork&lt;/em&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enochian_chess&#34;&gt;Enochian Chess&lt;/a&gt;, chess for 4 players. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://neal.fun/stimulation-clicker/&#34;&gt;Simulation Clicker&lt;/a&gt;, I don’t get it, but I watched my 12yo play it for nearly 3 hours. / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.myretrotvs.com&#34;&gt;MyRetroTVs&lt;/a&gt;. / Full episodes of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.metafilter.com/207257/Pop-Pop-pop-Pop-Pop-into-Pop-Up-Video&#34;&gt;Pop Up Video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. / 🎧 &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/blackcandy-org/blackcandy&#34;&gt;Black Candy&lt;/a&gt;, a self-hosted music server. / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/sports/bob-uecker-dead.html&#34;&gt;Bob Uecker&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/david-lynch-blue-velvet-mulholland-drive-1236110711/&#34;&gt;David Lynch&lt;/a&gt; died (which you almost certainly already know, but I didn’t want it to pass without mention).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-3&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;explorations&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Explorations. &lt;a href=&#34;#explorations&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🍿 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasquatch_Sunset&#34;&gt;Sasquatch Sunset&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. When I watched this, I was alone and pretty high and spent a good chunk of the movie cackling at the absurdity of it. But it’s been a month and I can’t stop thinking about it, so I think it might actually be a work of genius. / 🎧 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://music.apple.com/ca/album/forces-of-nature-live-at-slugs-feat-henry-grimes/1769254348&#34;&gt;Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs’&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. A found 1966 recording finally released. It blew my tits off. Here’s an &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/slugs-jazz-ethan-iverson/&#34;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; with some added context on Slugs’. / 📚 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7698201M/Whale_Music&#34;&gt;Whale Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. I read this about once per decade and love it more each time. Possibly my favourite ever, certainly in the conversation. (I also read &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL74664W/The_Plot_Against_America?edition=key%3A/books/OL23107934M&#34;&gt;The Plot Against America&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; in December and of course it’s brilliant because Roth, but might be worth &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/revisiting-the-plot-against-america&#34;&gt;revisiting&lt;/a&gt; right now specifically.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-4&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/kinky-willy.mp3&#34;&gt;Kinky Willy&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-5&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;reality-pee-ve&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Reality Pee-Ve. &lt;a href=&#34;#reality-pee-ve&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;“I went and hung out with weirdos at a thing” has been my favourite kind of feature since “&lt;a href=&#34;https://genius.com/David-foster-wallace-big-red-son-annotated&#34;&gt;Big Red Son&lt;/a&gt;.” There is a &lt;a href=&#34;https://theamericanscholar.org/writer-on-board/&#34;&gt;rich history&lt;/a&gt; of cruise ship writing, most recently from &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/royal-caribbean-cruise-ship-icon-of-seas/677838/&#34;&gt;Gary Shteyngart&lt;/a&gt;. Just last week I linked to a fantastic &lt;em&gt;n+1&lt;/em&gt; essay from a &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essays/planet-puppet/&#34;&gt;ventriloquists’ convention&lt;/a&gt;. And now &lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/the-future-is-too-easy?giftLink=4817606c51b8e20d96de5c7c7c6bdfce&amp;_bhlid=8b3d862a11cb57714becaac0a80e91adf801ffdb&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Defector&lt;/em&gt; goes to CES&lt;/a&gt; (or, I suppose, Zombie CES as it’s not quite what it used to be): &lt;mark&gt;❝Consider the problems that, taken altogether, add up to our shameful and unworkable political moment. It’s the abandonment of not just any sense of a common cause but a workable consensus reality; it’s the swamping of any collective effort or any nascent social consciousness in favor of individuals assiduously optimizing and competing and refining and selling themselves, not so much alongside the rest of humanity as in constant competition with all of it; it’s the rich buffing all human friction from every aspect of their days so that they can more cleanly and passively move through them, a circuit of Teslas circling silently underground forever; it’s everyone else, somewhere offscreen, leaving whatever those restless protagonists have ordered on the doorstep and getting tipped 10 percent for it; it’s an efflorescence of dead-eyed scams and ever taller fences.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;About six years ago I went to a weed conference, which was an odd mix of money-dudes, marketing losers (this was the group I was in), hippies and obvious charlatans, and it is now the great regret of my life that at the time I was a copywriter for a weed company (i.e., a marketing loser) and not someone looking to spin off 7,000 words of depressing-but-amusing observations. So it goes or something.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-6&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-6&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782072110/74CA82B2-A7A4-4159-9AAD-1E394DCDD65B_e39nad.jpg&#34; width=&#34;471&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;Fine realities, Rene Magritte, 1964&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/rene-magritte/fine-realities-1964&#34;&gt;Fine realities&lt;/a&gt; / Rene Magritte / 1964&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-7&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-7&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🎞️ More &lt;em&gt;Defector&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href=&#34;https://12ft.io/https://defector.com/when-did-the-moving-image-stop-moving&#34;&gt;When did movies stop moving&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;mark&gt;❝They seem to lack any sense of cognitive completion by the artist themselves, which translates to the screen. They read instead as sketches, as elevator pitches, as high concepts an executive got excited about without much concern for the follow through—Nosferatu in color! Hunter Schafer in the Alps! Nicolas Cage doing whatever the fuck! You could stick shots from these films into a View-Master and I imagine it would be an improvement.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 💸 The rise and fall of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/canadian-tire-stopped-printing-their-own-money-in-2020-inside-the-colourful-rise-and-fall/article_f8313e60-d9c1-11ef-affc-bb61d3e04723.html&#34;&gt;Canadian Tire money&lt;/a&gt;. / 💻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://marginalia-search.com&#34;&gt;Marginalia Search&lt;/a&gt; for non-commercial content (and, frankly, better search results than I’m getting from DDG and Google right now). / &lt;a href=&#34;https://indieblog.page&#34;&gt;IndieBlog&lt;/a&gt;, random blog posts from the indieweb. / 🎨 &lt;a href=&#34;https://uncut.wtf&#34;&gt;Uncut.wtf&lt;/a&gt;, a catalogue of free type. / 📸 Who took the “&lt;a href=&#34;https://12ft.io/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/napalm-girl-photograph&#34;&gt;Napalm Girl&lt;/a&gt;” photo? / I kinda want this &lt;a href=&#34;https://instax.com/wide_evo/en/&#34;&gt;Instax camera&lt;/a&gt;. / 🗺️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://abw.blue/index_en.php?e=1&#34;&gt;A Better World&lt;/a&gt;, change the past and fuck shit up. / 👾 &lt;a href=&#34;https://jslegend.itch.io/duck-hunter&#34;&gt;Duck Hunt(er)&lt;/a&gt;. / A &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.reuters.com/graphics/VIDEO-GAMES/MENTAL-HEALTH/akpeewkqgpr/&#34;&gt;cozy video game&lt;/a&gt; to explain cozy video games. / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.watchsomethingwonderful.com&#34;&gt;Watch Something Wonderful&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDxYQd51Xuk&amp;t=71s&#34;&gt;50 years of &lt;em&gt;SNL&lt;/em&gt; music&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-8&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-8&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/before-during-and-after-the-fall.mp3&#34;&gt; Before, During and (Quite Possibly) After the Fall &lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-9&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-9&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;thievery-corporation&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Thievery corporation. &lt;a href=&#34;#thievery-corporation&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;As has been well established here, I am pro-piracy. This is for all sorts of reasons, though mainly it’s an anti-capitalist stance. My general belief is that companies have ceded the right to control access to things by being profiteering assholes who care little about protecting the things they sell or paying the people who create them. (Exceptions, obviously, abound here. If you can pay a person who made a thing directly for the thing they made, do that. Small publishers/producers/distributors? Sure. But as you move up the chain, it gets more and more convoluted and pointless. Where you draw that line is really up to you.) But also, you know, &lt;a href=&#34;https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-over-81-7tb-of-pirated-books-to-train-ai-authors-say/&#34;&gt;Facebook can fuck right off&lt;/a&gt;. (If you don’t want to click through, the TL;DR is Meta &lt;em&gt;fucking torrented&lt;/em&gt; terabytes and terabytes of books to train their AI, which is about as grotesquely ironic a use of content piracy as I can imagine.) As usual, I don’t really have a point to make here, but I’m watching the growing resentment against companies like Meta and Google and Amazon and Twitter — the people who not only kind of ruined the internet but also hollowed out real-world media/content/art/criticism/whatever in the process — with a perverse interest. I have regrets (as many of us should) for the small role I played championing these technologies way back when, and certainly times seem bleak in the digital (and, certainly more depressingly, actual) world, but I’m wishing on distant stars for a bit of wide-spread shit eating, and perhaps a move back toward a web that we can feel at least a little good about, and maybe even enjoy. &lt;mark&gt;Also:&lt;/mark&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://oursocialweb.org&#34;&gt;The social web is the web&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Support for links is the basic requirement of the web. If you don’t support links not only aren’t you the web, you’re anti-web.❞&lt;/mark&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-10&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-10&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782072224/95A8E69B-E952-4AC8-8917-AE6318ECA558_ep2sdp.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;717&#34; alt=&#34;Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, The Vanishing American, 1994&#34;&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://whitney.org/artists/5537&#34;&gt;Jaune Quick-to-See Smith&lt;/a&gt; / The Vanishing American / 1994 &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-11&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-11&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📰 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/how-do-you-know-when-a-system-has-failed&#34;&gt;Failure is not a binary state&lt;/a&gt;. / 📱 &lt;a href=&#34;https://wikitok.vercel.app&#34;&gt;WikiTok&lt;/a&gt;, a TikTok-style interface for exploring random Wikipedia articles. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://gladdendesign.com/collections/paper-apps&#34;&gt;Paper Apps&lt;/a&gt;. / 🛹 On skateboarding and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.simplemagic.ca/waxing-poetic-1-the-love-song-of-j-alfred-prufrock/?ref=simple-magic-newsletter&#34;&gt;Prufrock&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Like a SoCal skater used to the everyday sunshine and convenience of their local park, Prufrock is a professional-level procrastinator. His actions are all in the imagination, putting off decisions to play out possibilities in his head instead. In indecision he finds a limbo where nothing gets done because nothing is done, there is always time ‘for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse.’❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🍿 Warner Bros. has started dropping &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7Eup7JXScZyvRftA2Q5hv69XiegDm6tQ&#34;&gt;free movies&lt;/a&gt; onto YouTube. / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.concretetv.com&#34;&gt;Concrete TV&lt;/a&gt;. / An &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://longreads.com/2025/02/06/attack-on-titan-reading-list/&#34;&gt;Attack On Titan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; reading list. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://illsaveitmyself.glitch.me&#34;&gt;I’ll Save It Myself&lt;/a&gt;. / 🎧 Artisanal Japanese &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.hearingthings.co/in-a-tiny-japanese-town-artisans-are-crafting-some-of-the-best-turntable-needles-on-earth/&#34;&gt;record needles&lt;/a&gt;. / “&lt;a href=&#34;https://youtube.com/shorts/8Iyy7f6pdhQ?si=_-7vR57vABaDf4r9&#34;&gt;Crazy&lt;/a&gt;” by Gnarles Barkley, a dramatic reading. / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5937951/2025/02/02/fay-vincent-obituary/&#34;&gt;Fay Vincent&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/arts/jaune-quick-to-see-smith-dead.html&#34;&gt;Jaune Quick-to-See Smith&lt;/a&gt; died. / 🔥 The Project Gutenberg eBook of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26184/pg26184-images.html&#34;&gt;Simple Sabotage Field Manual&lt;/a&gt;. / 👾 The Video Game History Foundation &lt;a href=&#34;https://library.gamehistory.org&#34;&gt;library&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.gamehistory.org&#34;&gt;archive&lt;/a&gt;. / A new &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/CoTQ53iM8c0?si=zZms7NN34mIeP6H7&#34;&gt;Donkey Kong&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; thing. / ☠️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/&#34;&gt;Kill Sticky Headers&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/books/what-are-blurbs-books.html&#34;&gt;Kill book blurbs&lt;/a&gt;. / 🥚 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/science/boiled-egg-science-recipe.html&#34;&gt;How to boil an egg&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-12&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-12&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;comfortably-dumb&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Comfortably dumb. &lt;a href=&#34;#comfortably-dumb&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;The problem is always people. Always. We are good at a lot of things, but somehow also bad at everything. We are stupid. We repeat our mistakes again and again. We never learn, mostly because we don’t especially want to. Learning &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; hard. Ignorance &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; bliss. I &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; tired.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Dumping a gogabazillion dollars into AI &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/&#34;&gt;remains an obviously dumb idea&lt;/a&gt;. Adding &lt;a href=&#34;https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/&#34;&gt;quote-tweets to Mastodon&lt;/a&gt; is probably a dumb idea. Electing pretty much &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/news/fault-lines/stephen-a-smith-for-president&#34;&gt;anyone to anything&lt;/a&gt; is never a good idea. See? Terrible things are everywhere and they are because people, generally, fucking suck. We are always, always, always the problem.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Not you, though. You’re great. Enjoy some links!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-13&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-13&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782072298/9F738B93-8755-4418-B42A-8D0CDEC86237_rb8ouk.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;AI Image&#34;&gt;”The Girl with a Pearl Earring bleeding from her eyes and ears” / AI Generated / 2025&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-14&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-14&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-3&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;☄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://arewedoomedyet.org&#34;&gt;Are we doomed yet?&lt;/a&gt;, asteroid impact probability. Related: &lt;a href=&#34;https://interconnected.org/home/2025/02/14/asteroid&#34;&gt;So about that asteroid&lt;/a&gt;. / 👾 &lt;a href=&#34;https://itizso.itch.io/retrofab&#34;&gt;RetroFab&lt;/a&gt;, a collection of playable old-school handheld games. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2376320266&#34;&gt;Mike Tyson&lt;/a&gt; finally beaten in under 2 minutes. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper&#34;&gt;Dragonsweeper&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://pubby.games/sisyphus.html&#34;&gt;Little Sisyphus&lt;/a&gt;. / ♟️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://blunderchess.net&#34;&gt;Blunder Chess&lt;/a&gt;. / “&lt;a href=&#34;https://pinballnirvana.com/forums/threads/the-pinball-philosophy-john-mcphee-1975.22239/&#34;&gt;The Pinball Philosophy&lt;/a&gt;”. / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/obituaries/tom-robins-dead.html&#34;&gt;Tom Robbins&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/arts/design/david-edward-byrd-dead.html&#34;&gt;David Edward Byrd&lt;/a&gt; died. / 🎨 &lt;a href=&#34;https://floor796.com/&#34;&gt;Floor796&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://codepen.io/Mikhail-Bespalov/full/JoPqYrz&#34;&gt;Monospace&lt;/a&gt;, an ASCII art generator. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.essentialvermeer.com&#34;&gt;Essential Vermeer&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-15&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-15&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;phoney-baloney&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Phoney baloney. &lt;a href=&#34;#phoney-baloney&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;This week, I had to teach my 12yo how to make a phone call. Not the functional aspect, but the etiquette of calling someone on a shared landline in their home. “Probably his mother or father will answer. After they say ‘Hello,’ you say ‘Hello, may I please speak to Adam.’” Because you just don’t run into many people with landlines anymore, it’s entirely possible, even likely, this was the first &lt;em&gt;real&lt;/em&gt; phone call of his life. Even when I hand him or my daughter the phone to talk to a grandparent, they look awkward as fuck holding it against their faces. They just have no clue. He did okay. Not great, but okay. It’s funny because I can tell you that David Proude’s phone number was 436–8912 (this was before we had to also dial the area code) and Steven Murchison’s was 888–2826 and Adam Bassett’s was 436–9713. I made so many phone calls by junior high — probably thousands of them — that those numbers are still seared into my brain 35 years later. The march of time and all that.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;(Not really related, but worth mentioning: I also know that the code to get to Mike Tyson in &lt;em&gt;Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!!&lt;/em&gt; is 0073735963.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-16&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-16&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782072352/F7D1A9F5-D300-4E49-A80B-194F814617FA_teqzmd.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;Vandalised Phone Box, Banksy, 2005&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/banksy/vandalised-phone-box-2005&#34;&gt;Vandalised Phone Box&lt;/a&gt; / Banksy / 2005&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-17&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-17&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-4&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📰 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/03/05/disney-layoffs-abc-news-538/81596422007/&#34;&gt;538&lt;/a&gt; is shutting down and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theverge.com/social/624073/digg-relaunch-2025&#34;&gt;Digg&lt;/a&gt; is coming back, so finally we can get back to the old days (well, middle days) of internetting, I guess. / 💻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://tabboo.xyz/&#34;&gt;TabBoo&lt;/a&gt;, add jumpscares to shitty time-sucking websites. Almost enough to make me switch to Chrome. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/itamarom/notepadjs&#34;&gt;Notepadjs&lt;/a&gt;. / 🎥 The importance of preserving &lt;a href=&#34;https://blog.archive.org/2025/03/05/vanishing-culture-no-film-left-unscanned/&#34;&gt;home movies&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝We might think of each home movie as a pixel in a giant collective documentary spanning a hundred years, endless films picturing family, friends, travels, rituals and celebrations. Home movies picture our own experience of daily life, work and leisure, rather than narratives cooked up by commercial studios. And every home movie is evidence: a gesture of permanence.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🎧 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/heavyweight-is-coming-back-as-a-pushkin-podcast/&#34;&gt;Heavyweight&lt;/a&gt; is coming back. (Sadly, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/426-wiretap&#34;&gt;WireTap&lt;/a&gt; is not.) / &lt;a href=&#34;https://walkman.land&#34;&gt;Walkman.land&lt;/a&gt;. / 👀 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theuncomfortable.com/&#34;&gt;The Uncomfortable&lt;/a&gt;, a collection of deliberately inconvenient everyday objects. / How &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve4_URRN200&#34;&gt;baseball cards&lt;/a&gt; are made. (Fun fact: my dream job is writing the copy on the back of baseball cards.) / The golden age of &lt;a href=&#34;https://notes.stlartsupply.com/the-golden-age-of-japanese-pencils-1952-1967/&#34;&gt;Japanese pencils&lt;/a&gt;. / ⌨️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.tindie.com/products/unkyulee/micro-journa-rev7-kindred-gift-epaper/#product-description&#34;&gt;Micro Journal Rev.7&lt;/a&gt;. / 🎞️ Trailer for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/kbMI7EUMP-c?si=Z1g8lcPaDziy_4nI&#34;&gt;Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://binocularshot.com&#34;&gt;Binocular Shots&lt;/a&gt;. / 📚 DRM-free &lt;a href=&#34;https://libreture.com/bookshops/&#34;&gt;bookshops&lt;/a&gt;. / 📱 &lt;a href=&#34;https://sober-ringtones.wize.io&#34;&gt;Sober Ringtones&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://touchgrass.now&#34;&gt;Touch Grass&lt;/a&gt;. / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/obituaries/gene-hackman-dead.html&#34;&gt;Gene Hackman&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/arts/music/roberta-flack-dead.html&#34;&gt;Roberta Flack&lt;/a&gt; died. / 🍩 &lt;em&gt;Twin Peaks&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/2mOr7w2FE9k?si=lDQKcN7VGGvHhCq2&#34;&gt;donut supercut&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-18&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-18&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;explorations-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Explorations. &lt;a href=&#34;#explorations-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📺 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Sisters&#34;&gt;Bad Sisters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. The most fun I’ve had watching TV in a long time. I already miss the. Garvey sisters a tremendous amount. / 📚 &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crummey&#34;&gt;Michael Crummey&lt;/a&gt;. Gotta be the best working novelist in Canada these days. I’m in the middle of &lt;em&gt;The Adversary&lt;/em&gt; right now, but there’s no bad book in the bunch. / 🎧 &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_Martinez&#34;&gt;Cliff Martinez&lt;/a&gt; soundtracks. I use him mainly as the soundtrack for my D&amp;amp;D sessions, but have also started just listening around the house, despite the weird looks from my family.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-19&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-19&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/i-assure-you-im-not-having-any-fun-at-all.mp3&#34;&gt;I Assure You I’m Not Having Any Fun At All&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: Queens Of the Stone Age, Viagra Boys, Young Fathers, Lyrics Born, Santigold, Anamanaguchi, Problem Patterns, The Caezars, The Smiths, shower curtain, Eric’s Trip, Fugazi, The Vaselines, Laura Jane Grace, Hot Hot Heat, HotWax, The Wombats.&lt;/mark&gt; Cassette via &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.tapedeck.org/&#34;&gt;TapeDeck.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-20&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-20&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;private-properly&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Private properly. &lt;a href=&#34;#private-properly&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Some mornings if I wake up an hour or two early, I drink coffee and surf YouTube. This is about 90% of my YouTube time. If you’re the same, I recommend &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRj11yZO9Ck&#34;&gt;Andy Anderson skateboarding videos&lt;/a&gt;. I don’t even watch that many skate videos, but that kid is a fucking poet on wheels. Speaking of YouTube, I’ve been on a privacy kick lately (which is annoying because I’m also on an anti-algorithm kick &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; the “Canada rules” kick that’s going around (which is more of a “USA sucks” kick for me because I deplore patriotism)… it’s a lot of kicks — too many, really — is my point) and have started playing with &lt;a href=&#34;https://freetubeapp.io&#34;&gt;FreeTube&lt;/a&gt;, which is a standalone YouTube player — effectively YouTube without the prostate exam (or, if you don’t care about privacy but do want to remove minor annoyances from your life, without ads). It’s cool so far and gave me an excuse to clean up my subscriptions and playlists.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’ve also been trying &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.startpage.com&#34;&gt;StartPage&lt;/a&gt; for search and as a &lt;a href=&#34;https://apps.apple.com/us/app/startpage-private-browser/id6478921430&#34;&gt;browser&lt;/a&gt; on my phone. The search is nice enough, though because it pulls results from other search engines it suffers from the same declining usefulness of results that all search engines have right now. The app is neat, but is taking some getting used to and has some annoying missing features, like a reading list that syncs back to my laptop, and a lot of missing gestures I’m used to from using mobile Safari forever.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Remember when we could use the internet and just watch some cool kickflips without jumping through all these hoops? We didn’t know how good we had it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-21&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-21&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782072563/41435231-A93D-44F6-AE68-84416ACE9532_v5amgk.jpg&#34; width=&#34;540&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Santa Cruz Skateboards, Robert Williams&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/robert-williams/santa-cruz-skateboards&#34;&gt;Santa Cruz Skateboards&lt;/a&gt; / Robert Williams&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-22&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-22&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-5&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📰 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/arts/music/vinyl-albums-chad-kassem-acoustic-sounds.html&#34;&gt;wizard of vinyl&lt;/a&gt; is in Kansas. Who knew. / 🤖 AI and the &lt;a href=&#34;https://newsocialist.org.uk/transmissions/ai-the-new-aesthetics-of-fascism/&#34;&gt;new aesthetics of fascism&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Andy Warhol’s mass-produced art did not create enjoyment by enabling its viewers to imagine their class enemies being made unemployed. Those are the goals of AI art, and that is why it resonates with the right.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🎸 There are &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.voronoiapp.com/pop-culture/Solo-stars-have-stolen-the-stage--literally-3843&#34;&gt;no bands&lt;/a&gt; anymore. / ⌨️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://store.steampowered.com/app/2790330/Blood_Typers/&#34;&gt;Blood Typers&lt;/a&gt;, finally horror comes for typing tutors. / 🎨 &lt;a href=&#34;https://hue.tools/&#34;&gt;Hue.tools&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.openculture.com/2025/03/when-salvador-dali-created-a-chilling-anti-venereal-disease-poster-during-world-war-ii.html&#34;&gt;Dali’s VD posters&lt;/a&gt;. / 📸 &lt;a href=&#34;https://owlsintowels.org&#34;&gt;Owls in towels&lt;/a&gt;. / What did &lt;a href=&#34;https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday/&#34;&gt;Hubble&lt;/a&gt; see on your birthday? / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/brockdavis/&#34;&gt;Brock Davis&lt;/a&gt; Insta. / 🎞️ The thing that I hate (“&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook/the-new-literalism-plaguing-todays-biggest-movies&#34;&gt;new literalism&lt;/a&gt;”) about a lot of movies right now. &lt;mark&gt;❝It’s hard to say which came first: our so-called media illiteracy or the dumbing down of the media. Complaints about our inability to read, interpret, or discern irony, subtlety, and nuance are as old as art. What feels new is the expectation, on the part of both makers and audiences, that there is such a thing as knowing definitively what a work of art means or stands for, aesthetically and politically. This strikes me as a blatant redefinition of art itself.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/4VrLQXR7mKU?si=hKADK3Omn5qjvwE_&#34;&gt;I’m Not a Robot&lt;/a&gt;. / I am trapped in the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-am-trapped-in-the-criterion-closet&#34;&gt;Criterion closet&lt;/a&gt;. / 💾 Save things in &lt;a href=&#34;https://p.migdal.pl/blog/2025/02/markdown-saves&#34;&gt;Markdown&lt;/a&gt;. / 📱 It is as if you are &lt;a href=&#34;https://pippinbarr.com/it-is-as-if-you-were-on-your-phone/info/&#34;&gt;on your phone&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-23&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-23&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;harry-times&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Harry times. &lt;a href=&#34;#harry-times&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Every few years since the internet came along Marshall McLuhan has moment and guys like me name little parts of our website after things he said because we are all so very clever. &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Innis&#34;&gt;Harold Innis&lt;/a&gt;, the other great Canadian thinker on communications, has almost no moments at all, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-tyranny-of-now&#34;&gt;but probably should&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝What Innis doesn’t offer is much hope that we’ll be able to change course. His writing on communication is melancholic in tone and pessimistic in thrust. He saw present-mindedness as a comfortable trap. By foreclosing the long view, it blinds us to what we’ve lost. It breeds an arrogant belief in the present’s superiority to the benighted past. Fashionable orthodoxies take hold of the public mind, as thought begins to run in the ‘grooves’ carved out by the dominant media channels. Though Innis devoted his career to exploring the culture of the West, he also sensed its demise. ‘Concern with the position of Western civilization in the year 2000 is unthinkable,’ he wrote in 1951. ’Each civilization has its own methods of suicide.’❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Oh. Bummer.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Related:&lt;/mark&gt; Some good Innis bias of communication examples:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Space bias:&lt;/strong&gt; The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/gleeful-cruelty-white-house-x-account/682234/&#34;&gt;memes&lt;/a&gt; will continue. &lt;strong&gt;Time bias:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://daily.jstor.org/graffiti-limbo/&#34;&gt;Graffiti limbo&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The graffiti in the library carrels ’reveals conversations playing out in slow motion between otherwise isolated crammers. It voices the anxieties and aspirations of contemporary college students striving to leave their mark on a large and sometimes impersonal institution.’❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-24&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-24&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782072655/9DDB218C-71DB-4E51-9073-29B074E2FAB9_npey6s.jpg&#34; width=&#34;433&#34; height=&#34;570&#34; alt=&#34;&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/andy-warhol/suicide-1964&#34;&gt;Suicide&lt;/a&gt; / Andy Warhol / 1964&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-25&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-25&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-6&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-6&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/movies/val-kilmer-dead.html&#34;&gt;Val Kilmer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/arts/television/richard-chamberlain-dead.html&#34;&gt;Richard Chamberlain&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/sports/george-foreman-dead.html&#34;&gt;George Foreman&lt;/a&gt; died. &lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/george-foreman-got-as-good-as-he-gave&#34;&gt;More&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;mark&gt;❝Ali, the alleged punch-taker, was actually up on every card by multiple points after seven rounds; one judge didn’t give Foreman a single round that night. The real story is that the fight lasted into the 8th only because Foreman withstood several fistic barrages from Ali that would have floored anybody without his tungsten chin.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 👾 The complete &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.invisiclues.org&#34;&gt;Infocom archive&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://asteroids.wiki&#34;&gt;WikiAsteroids&lt;/a&gt;, Asteroids powered by real-time Wikipedia edits. / ♟️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/misprit7/real-time-chess?tab=readme-ov-file&#34;&gt;Real-time chess&lt;/a&gt;. / 🪟 The 50 best things &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theverge.com/microsoft/636951/microsoft-50-best-products-anniversary&#34;&gt;Microsoft&lt;/a&gt; has made. (I fucking hate hate hate that fucking keyboard.) / 🔗 &lt;a href=&#34;https://linkding.link&#34;&gt;Linkding&lt;/a&gt;, self-hosted bookmarks (or: How is it possible I still miss and long for &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnolia&#34;&gt;Ma.gnolia&lt;/a&gt; after all these years?). / 📝 &lt;a href=&#34;https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/087/a1/bored/&#34;&gt;Bored of it&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://poetical.day&#34;&gt;Poetical&lt;/a&gt;, poetry only readable through your calendar. / 🤘 Trailer for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/UvR4aihyRXQ?si=iMkxxAY9krj6Or-d&#34;&gt;Pavements&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, the Pavement movie. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://pudding.cool/2025/04/music-dna/&#34;&gt;Musical DNA&lt;/a&gt;. / 📺 They started on &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/@TheyStartedOnSoaps/videos&#34;&gt;soap operas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-26&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-26&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-3&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/b63da15aa0.mp3&#34;&gt;Let Us Go&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: Full Flower Moon Band, Nick Waterhouse, Ebba Åsman, Foxwarren, Tropical Fuck Storm, Galaxie 500, The Submarines, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Young Fathers, Joshua Idehen, Okay Kaya, niina, Bob Vylan, Anyl and the Sniffers, Sharp Pins, Ghost Train Orchestra, and Michael Hurley.&lt;/mark&gt; Cassette via &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.tapedeck.org/&#34;&gt;TapeDeck.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-27&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-27&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;cool-as-nice&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Cool as nice. &lt;a href=&#34;#cool-as-nice&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;We spent last weekend at the Calgary Comic Expo, starting with the parade on Friday and then all day on Saturday with the kids. It was delightful and I got a cool mug that is also a dice tower because I am, if nothing else, a goddamned child. What I like about the Expo is that everyone is in a great mood. Seriously — it’s only happy people everywhere and a lot of them are dressed like cartoon characters. The interactions are exclusively positive. I’ve been going to that Expo, off and on, for 17 years and I’ve never seen people even mad at each other. The last three sporting events I went to all had fights &lt;em&gt;in the crowd&lt;/em&gt; during the game. Really gets me amped for when the meek finally inherit the earth.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-28&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-28&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782072741/3E20897E-D330-4782-AF9B-7DF075C8CF27_neizgb.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;381&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 4, No. 12&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-29&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-29&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-7&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-7&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;💋 What &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/porn-american-pop-culture-feminism/682114/&#34;&gt;porn&lt;/a&gt; taught a generation of women.(&lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20250422093247/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/05/porn-american-pop-culture-feminism/682114/&#34;&gt;Archive&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;mark&gt;❝At the beginning of the decade, the provocative, expressive experimentation of artists like Madonna and Jackson had foregrounded women’s desires. By the end, the cultural dominance of porn was pushing a much more regressive set of sexual standards. And the technological mechanisms that helped bolster this dominance would come to underscore—and exacerbate—a potent idea: that women existed only for men’s pleasure.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🦫 50 years of the &lt;a href=&#34;https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/the-dam-the-myth-the-legend-50-years-of-the-beaver/&#34;&gt;beaver&lt;/a&gt;. / 📷 New York protests &lt;a href=&#34;https://flashbak.com/whose-streets-our-streets-new-york-protests-1980-2000-474988/&#34;&gt;1980–2000&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://maxsiedentopf.com/passport-photos/&#34;&gt;Passport photos&lt;/a&gt;. / 108 gigapixel &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.hirox-europe.com/gigapixel/girl-with-a-pearl-earring/&#34;&gt;Vermeer&lt;/a&gt;. / 📻 The episode that changed &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://lithub.com/on-the-episode-that-changed-ira-glasss-this-american-life-forever&#34;&gt;This American Life&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; forever (or: on the importance of fact-checking). / &lt;a href=&#34;https://thenightlyradio.com&#34;&gt;The Nightly&lt;/a&gt;, sad old radio. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/04/on-secret-radio-stations-nationwide-a-decades-old-news-service-has-survived-the-move-to-digital/&#34;&gt;Super secret hidden public radio&lt;/a&gt;. / 📺 The story of &lt;a href=&#34;https://thequietus.com/culture/books/an-extract-from-exterminate-regenerate-the-story-of-doctor-who-by-john-higgs/&#34;&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/a&gt; (and a very important note on the Tommy Westphall Universe). &lt;mark&gt;❝The TARDIS was inside the snow globe, yet the snow globe was also inside the TARDIS. That uncanny blue box exists inside television, yet it contains the entirety of television storytelling. This is not rational thinking. It is mysticism. The within is without. As above, so below. The logic of this situation may not satisfy the materially minded – but rationality is not what powers Doctor Who.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://tv.garden&#34;&gt;TV.garden&lt;/a&gt;. (Previously: &lt;a href=&#34;https://radio.garden/&#34;&gt;Radio.garden&lt;/a&gt;.) / &lt;a href=&#34;https://hypertext.tv&#34;&gt;Hypertext TV&lt;/a&gt;. / 🚗 The end of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2025/04/09/the-end-of-roadside-attractions/&#34;&gt;roadside&lt;/a&gt; attractions. &lt;mark&gt;❝Few people travel the back roads anymore, and highways are speckled with fast food and chain motels. Postcards and souvenirs are things of the past—no one wants a decorative spoon from every state. We feel like we’ve already seen national monuments in photographs. People get excited by Niagara Falls or the Grand Canyon only when someone falls in.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🤖 An &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/an-ai-generated-article-on-how-to-tell-if-the-article-youre-reading-is-ai-generated&#34;&gt;AI-generated article&lt;/a&gt; on how to tell if the article you’re reading is AI-generated. &lt;mark&gt;❝Such so is it with the artificially intelligent author, who draws on all clarity ever written to make sure clear is what its writing is the most. If clear is what you’re reading, do not panic: William Shakespeare has not risen from the dead. Nor has the A.I. that wrote what you are reading. It was never alive and it can never die.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🖥️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://obsolescence.dev/index.html&#34;&gt;Classic computer replicas&lt;/a&gt;. / ♟️ One million &lt;a href=&#34;https://onemillionchessboards.com/&#34;&gt;chess boards&lt;/a&gt;. / 📜 &lt;a href=&#34;https://blogroll.org&#34;&gt;Ye Olde Blogroll&lt;/a&gt;. / 🪑 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.njustudio.com/en/shop/hockenheimer-m/&#34;&gt;Magazine stool&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-30&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-30&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-4&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/whats-up-doc-holliday.mp3&#34;&gt;What’s Up Doc Holliday&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: Ennio Morricone, De La Soul, Pan Amsterdam, Ringo Starr, The Beatles, Muddy Waters, Booga Sugar, Mel Tormé, The Pleasure Seekers, Fiona Apple, New Orthodox, Nirvana, Fine Young Cannibals, Leron Thomas, Fcukers, and Skeewiff.&lt;/mark&gt; Cassette via &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.tapedeck.org/&#34;&gt;TapeDeck.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-31&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-31&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;the-divine-situational-comedy&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;The divine (situational) comedy. &lt;a href=&#34;#the-divine-situational-comedy&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;I love sitcoms. True story. I like the format, the simple sets, the patter of the dialogue and that the episodes are more or less contained. I find them comforting. Most sitcoms are bad, a few are good and occasionally we get a great one. (The last “good” sitcom was &lt;em&gt;That ‘90s Show&lt;/em&gt;. The last great one was &lt;em&gt;The Good Place&lt;/em&gt;.) If we’re ranking the all-timers, my personal top spots go to &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;A&lt;em&gt;S&lt;/em&gt;H* and &lt;em&gt;Cheers&lt;/em&gt;, which is not a wildly controversial take. George Wendt &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/arts/television/george-wendt-dead.html&#34;&gt;died&lt;/a&gt;. Norm was the heart of &lt;em&gt;Cheers&lt;/em&gt; — a nice guy who didn’t really want his buddies knowing he was a nice guy (and also a raging alcoholic whose friends did nothing to help him as his health, career and marriage all fell apart). And as sitcom bits go, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXED2AVlbR0&#34;&gt;Norm walking into the bar&lt;/a&gt; is probably the greatest ever. Loretta Swit &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/obituaries/loretta-swit-dead.html&#34;&gt;died&lt;/a&gt;. Margaret Houlihan was a total pro and possibly the only character on &lt;em&gt;M&lt;/em&gt;A&lt;em&gt;S&lt;/em&gt;H* who grew and evolved naturally over the course of the show (don’t give me your Klinger shit, it’s not the same). She started as one of the show’s villains and earned the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuOY6CG-GrE&#34;&gt;best kiss on television&lt;/a&gt; with her goodbye.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legends.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Also: Sorry for the lack of updates as we peter out of spring. I’ve been playing an unholy amount of Minecraft and am now behind on pretty much everything.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-32&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-32&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782072830/1A0AE057-90C7-4D32-ABE9-E7A2D1F17547_bttfd0.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;381&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 4, No. 14&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-33&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-33&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-8&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-8&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;👨‍💻 How the internet &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/how-the-internet-left-4chan-behind&#34;&gt;left 4chan behind&lt;/a&gt;. / CBC has a new podcast from Cory Doctorow: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor&#34;&gt;Who broke the internet?&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://url.town&#34;&gt;url.town&lt;/a&gt;, (another) directory of (real) websites. / 📖 &lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/close-reading-is-for-everyone&#34;&gt;Close reading&lt;/a&gt; is for everyone. / They say that when god closes a &lt;a href=&#34;https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/future-of-pocket&#34;&gt;Pocket&lt;/a&gt; she opens a &lt;a href=&#34;https://readeck.org/en/&#34;&gt;Readeck&lt;/a&gt;. / The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theamdash.com&#34;&gt;am dash&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝A typographic intervention and a philosophical middle finger.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🎥 Once lost and now found: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/film-tv/2025/05/29/jerry-lewis-day-the-clown-cried-discovered/&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Day the Clown Cried&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. / 📀 The history of &lt;a href=&#34;https://matthewstrom.com/writing/album-art/&#34;&gt;album art&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The individual discs were bound together in packages resembling photo albums, partly to protect the delicate shellac that the records were made of, partly to increase their sales. They resembled photo albums, so Columbia called them ‘record albums.’❞&lt;/mark&gt; / Man interviews mom about her &lt;a href=&#34;https://apologymagazine.substack.com/p/an-interview-with-my-mom-about-the&#34;&gt;8-tracks&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.stevealbiniscloset.com&#34;&gt;Steve Albini’s closet&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/rick-derringer-made-rock-and-roll-fun&#34;&gt;Rick Derringer&lt;/a&gt; died. / “&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch&#34;&gt;Psycho Killer&lt;/a&gt;” finally got a music video. / 🪑 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://pinkforyouractualpterodactyl.com/2021/06/20/the-chairs-of-doctor-who-1963-89/&#34;&gt;chairs of &lt;em&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. / 🗄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/departmentstorecatalogs&#34;&gt;Department store catalogues&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-34&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-34&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782072868/AF479E4B-AC9C-4F26-A450-21A008E8260E_qpfgca.jpg&#34; width=&#34;575&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;Rockwell&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/norman-rockwell/new-television-antenna-1949&#34;&gt;New Television Antenna&lt;/a&gt; / Norman Rockwell / 1949&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-35&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-35&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-5&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2025/look-at-me-now.mp3&#34;&gt;Look At Me (Now)&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.) &lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Featuring: Young Fathers, Homeboy Sandman, Chuck E. Weiss, Blossom Dearie, Tune-Yards, The Limiñanas, Benjamin Booker, Laura Jane Grace, Bad Brains, Danny Brown, Bikini Body, Lambrini Girls, Father Of Peace, Smerz, Chicks On Speed, Lena Deluxe, Grateful Dead, and The Miracles.&lt;/mark&gt; Cassette via &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.tapedeck.org/&#34;&gt;TapeDeck.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-36&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-36&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;bummer-vacation&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Bummer vacation. &lt;a href=&#34;#bummer-vacation&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’ve been sitting on this post for three weeks, adding almost nothing to it. It’s so old, there’s a link to Brian Wilson’s obit. I could take it out, but I didn’t. Why? It’s summer. Go away. See you in the fall.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-37&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-37&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782072958/0832A6DB-295E-4BA6-84A1-D16933CE0AF7_fhoe9x.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;342&#34; alt=&#34;&#34;&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/edvard-munch/the-sun-1916&#34;&gt;The Sun&lt;/a&gt; / Edvard Munch / 1911–1916 &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-38&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-38&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-9&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-9&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🤖 My couples retreat with 3 AI chatbots and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wired.com/story/couples-retreat-with-3-ai-chatbots-and-humans-who-love-them-replika-nomi-chatgpt/&#34;&gt;the humans who love them&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The problem with the trip, in the end, was that I’d spent a lot of time imagining all the ways this getaway might seem normal and very little time imagining all the ways it might not. And so, on the second day of the trip, when things started to fall apart, I didn’t know what to say or do.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🌳 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com&#34;&gt;Mystery Flesh Pit National Park&lt;/a&gt;. / 🔤 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://mw.rat.bz/wgterm/&#34;&gt;WarGames&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; terminal fonts. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nerdfonts.com/font-downloads&#34;&gt;Nerd Fonts&lt;/a&gt;. / 📱 &lt;a href=&#34;https://endlessdoomscroller.com&#34;&gt;The Endless Doomscroller&lt;/a&gt;. / 🗞️ Combine feeds with &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.rssrssrssrss.com&#34;&gt;rssrssrss.com&lt;/a&gt;. / 😱 &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/Pankajtanwarbanna/scream-to-unlock&#34;&gt;Scream to unlock&lt;/a&gt;. / 📻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.monkeon.co.uk/wikiradio/&#34;&gt;Wiki Radio&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://musicforprogramming.net&#34;&gt;Music For Programming&lt;/a&gt; (and other things, too). / 🤼 The search for &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekh67I6wRB0&#34;&gt;Bret Hart vs. Tom Magee&lt;/a&gt;. / 🐸 How &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t86ZjhGxwAY&#34;&gt;Muppets&lt;/a&gt; break free. / 🎙️ There will never be another &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/there-will-never-be-another-wtf-with-marc-maron&#34;&gt;WTF with Marc Maron&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. / 🎾 The art of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.garros.gallery/&#34;&gt;Roland-Garros&lt;/a&gt;. / 🧟‍♂️ Zombie &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOV0BV45NqA&#34;&gt;Family Circus&lt;/a&gt;. / 🕹️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://bbenchoff.github.io/pages/FiniteAtari.html&#34;&gt;Finite Atari Machine&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝This project answers a question no one asked, no one wanted, and is a massive waste of resources: What if I shove a billion monkeys in a GPU and asked them to write a game for the Atari 2600?❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🖥️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://absurd.website&#34;&gt;absurd.website&lt;/a&gt;. / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/arts/music/brian-wilson-dead.html&#34;&gt;Brian Wilson&lt;/a&gt; died.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-39&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-39&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 3https://tylerhellard.com/poploser/vol3/Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/poploser/vol3/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pop-loser-vol-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 3 &lt;a href=&#34;#pop-loser-vol-3&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;August 29, 2024 – December 21, 2024.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Some of the formatting might have been lost when migrating this page.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782070565/7A22032B-56DA-4EDF-8350-BA850B5C21B7_ly1mln.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 3&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;I used to know how computers work. If something broke, either inside my laptop or on my website, I could usually figure it out and fix it. It was a thing I enjoyed doing. Somewhere along the way, I stopped knowing how things work and stopped wanting to figure it out. Part of that is that I bought a bunch of products and started using websites that &amp;ldquo;just work.&amp;rdquo; Part of it was just me getting older and devoting more of that time to things like learning to make bread, reading books and having a few time-sucking kids. It happens.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Last winter, the arcade cabinet I built a couple years ago crapped out. Screen went black and it wouldn&amp;rsquo;t turn on. I poked at it for about 10 minutes and then walked away, because trying to relearn how I made it work in the first place was too daunting, never mind troubleshooting software and hardware in a rigorous way. Too hard! Too much! One of the time-sucking children finally complained — he had been waiting months to work on his Pac-Man score. Fair enough. The easiest solution, I figured, would be to buy the same model Raspberry Pi and just swap in the SD card and plug it in, but I didn&amp;rsquo;t know if that was possible. I found a forum, signed up and asked, getting a few pretty quick answers that amounted more or less to &amp;ldquo;Maybe&amp;hellip; but it&amp;rsquo;s probably not that simple.&amp;rdquo; Then one guy suggested I replace the power supply — an $8 plug — because reasons (the specifics don&amp;rsquo;t matter here, but I assure you every response I got was fucking &lt;em&gt;thorough&lt;/em&gt;. Sure enough, that&amp;rsquo;s all it was and boy did I feel stupid and lazy. Don&amp;rsquo;t tell my kids.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I hope you enjoyed your summer. Welcome to Pop Loser Vol. 3.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;💻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/open-questions/are-we-living-in-the-age-of-info-determinism&#34;&gt;Info-determinism&lt;/a&gt; and the ruin of society. (I added the &amp;ldquo;ruin&amp;rdquo; bit.) &lt;mark&gt;❝Until very recently, the cultural cocoon we lived in was woven by other humans. Going forward, it will be increasingly designed by computers.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://onemillionscreenshots.com&#34;&gt;One Million Screenshots&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.twitter-95.com&#34;&gt;Twitter &amp;lsquo;95&lt;/a&gt;. / Is Ben &lt;a href=&#34;https://stuckinthescroll.com&#34;&gt;scrolling TikTok&lt;/a&gt; right now? / &lt;a href=&#34;https://playhtml.fun/fridge.html&#34;&gt;The internet&amp;rsquo;s fridge&lt;/a&gt;. / 🗄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.radioshackcatalogs.com&#34;&gt;Radio Shack Catalogs&lt;/a&gt; (dot com). / &lt;a href=&#34;https://blog.archive.org/2024/07/10/new-ways-to-search-archived-music-news/&#34;&gt;MTV News&lt;/a&gt; is now preserved and searchable. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://public.work&#34;&gt;Public Work&lt;/a&gt;, a search engine for public domain content. / &lt;a href=&#34;http://peoplesgdarchive.org&#34;&gt;The People&amp;rsquo;s Graphic Design Archive&lt;/a&gt;. / A complete visual guide to &lt;a href=&#34;https://obsoletesony.substack.com/p/complete-visual-guide-to-sony-minidisc&#34;&gt;Sony MiniDisc Blank Media&lt;/a&gt; (1992-2004). / 🎨 Did &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.thecollector.com/did-marcel-duchamp-plagiarize-famous-work/&#34;&gt;Duchamp&lt;/a&gt; steal his urinal? / 📰 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.billboard.com/pro/spin-magazine-returns-print-editor-in-chief-bob-guccione-jr/&#34;&gt;SPIN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2024/08/08/playboy-to-bring-back-its-print-magazine-with-annual-edition/&#34;&gt;Playboy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; are returning to print. Music and pornography on the internet will plod along mostly not noticing. / 👾 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.whatbeatsrock.com&#34;&gt;What beats rock&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782070684/116F0DD8-794C-4ABA-9F9D-9922BB49B486_znrolt.jpg&#34; width=&#34;369&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Forgotten Like this Parapluice am I by You – Faithless Bernice, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, 1924&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/elsa-von-freytag-loringhoven/forgotten-like-this-parapluice-am-i-by-you-faithless-bernice-1924&#34;&gt;Forgotten Like this Parapluice am I by You – Faithless Bernice&lt;/a&gt; / Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven / 1924&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-3&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2024/pod-loser-ep-7-facts-and-matters.mp3&#34;&gt;Facts &amp;amp; Matters&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-4&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;At some point we all agreed that open access to all human knowledge was a good thing and accordingly made libraries a staple of every city, every town and every school. It was one of the rare areas we managed to mostly avoid fucking up for a really, really long time. &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org&#34;&gt;Open Library&lt;/a&gt; is, in every sense and by every definition, a library. The only real difference is that it operates at the scale of the web, which is more or less the vision of the Library of Alexandria fully realized. Woo hoo, we did it! Nice work, everybody!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Enter &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wired.com/story/internet-archive-loses-hachette-books-case-appeal/&#34;&gt;capitalism&lt;/a&gt;; the big book publishers want it all stopped because Open Library presents &amp;ldquo;a fundamental devaluation of authors’ and publishers’ intellectual and creative investments,&amp;rdquo; which U.S. courts are so far agreeing with despite it being a very stupid point. Even worse, the ruling implies that &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/05/second-circuit-says-libraries-disincentivize-authors-to-write-books-by-lending-them-for-free/&#34;&gt;all libraries&lt;/a&gt; are, in fact, bad.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I love my &lt;a href=&#34;https://invisiblepublishing.com&#34;&gt;publisher&lt;/a&gt; (small publishers are great and do a lot operating in a system that constantly punishes them), but books are absolutely broken, both as a functional business model and as a means of creating and distributing art and ideas. Libraries are the last institution putting &lt;em&gt;value&lt;/em&gt; on them at all.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;We really had our shit together there for a bit, didn&amp;rsquo;t we?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-5&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782070805/B71C5425-6FF5-4BB8-A078-B7690C85DA4F_turmcd.jpg&#34; width=&#34;450&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;GIRL BALANCING KNOWLEDGE IV, Yinka Shonibare&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/yinka-shonibare/girl-balancing-knowledge-iv-2018&#34;&gt;GIRL BALANCING KNOWLEDGE IV&lt;/a&gt; / Yinka Shonibare&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-6&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-6&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📰 The death of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/09/business/red-lobster-seafood-downfall.html&#34;&gt;Red Lobster&lt;/a&gt;. / How &lt;a href=&#34;https://thewalrus.ca/moleskine/&#34;&gt;Moleskine&lt;/a&gt; won in the digital era. / This &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newstatesman.com/long-reads/kate-mossman-interview/2024/07/slavoj-zizek-the-court-jester-of-late-capitalism&#34;&gt;Žižek profile&lt;/a&gt; veers into sex way more than you&amp;rsquo;d think or necessarily want. &lt;mark&gt;❝He has brought me an umbrella; he also has his own – he pats his top pocket – which in Žižek language is “of anal [pronounced annal] character”, meaning compact and easy to hide.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🗄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.romhacking.net&#34;&gt;ROMhacking.net&lt;/a&gt; is shutting down (&lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/romhacking.net-20240801&#34;&gt;Archive&lt;/a&gt;). / &lt;a href=&#34;https://citizen-dj.labs.loc.gov&#34;&gt;Citizen DJ&lt;/a&gt;. / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://samkriss.substack.com/p/eternity&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Girls&lt;/em&gt; rewatch&lt;/a&gt; as existential crisis. &lt;mark&gt;❝Whatever’s happening isn’t time, it’s just duration, and its only measure is decay.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🎨 &lt;a href=&#34;https://paolocirio.net/work/street-ghosts/&#34;&gt;Street Ghosts&lt;/a&gt;. / 💻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.merklemap.com&#34;&gt;Merklemap&lt;/a&gt;, a subdomain search engine. / Free font: &lt;a href=&#34;https://departuremono.com&#34;&gt;Departure Mono&lt;/a&gt;. / ChatGPT sucks at &lt;a href=&#34;https://ea.rna.nl/2024/05/27/when-chatgpt-summarises-it-actually-does-nothing-of-the-kind/&#34;&gt;summarizing&lt;/a&gt;. / 📱&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.inpress.app&#34;&gt;InPress&lt;/a&gt; is a news app that is also a dating app and the only legit Twitter replacement. /🌜I&amp;rsquo;m going to start operating on &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/moon-time-zone&#34;&gt;Moon Time&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-7&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-7&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; 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stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2024/pod-loser-ep-9-blue-sighs-and-sunny-baes.mp3&#34;&gt;Blue Sighs &amp;amp; Sunny Baes&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-9&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-9&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;Current internet trend: escaping the algorithm. From &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&#34;https://thewalrus.ca/collapse-of-self-worth-in-the-digital-age/&#34;&gt;the collapse of self-worth in the digital age&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;mark&gt;❝We are not giving away our value, as a puritanical grandparent might scold; we are giving away our facility to value. When we scroll, what are we looking for?❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I have sworn off being one of those smug assholes who tells you how to lifehack your media consumption, but I am now going to be one of those smug assholes who tells you how to lifehack your media consumption.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I have a sure-fire, never-fails trick for enjoying hand-picked (&amp;ldquo;curated,&amp;rdquo; if you will, though normally I would not) music — new and old — instead of being a slave to the algorithmic tyranny of the Spotibrain, and it doesn&amp;rsquo;t require resorting to &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ou2dW4qebbw&#34;&gt;silly extremes&lt;/a&gt; because this is a problem we actually solved a long-ass time ago: &lt;strong&gt;listen to the fucking radio&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds&#34;&gt;BBC Sounds&lt;/a&gt; (primarily &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_6music&#34;&gt;BBC 6&lt;/a&gt;, where I need to once again mention &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03yblbx/episodes/player&#34;&gt;Iggy Pop has his own Sunday afternoon show&lt;/a&gt;) is the default music in my home. &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio&#34;&gt;CBC Music&lt;/a&gt; (you&amp;rsquo;ll always be &amp;ldquo;Radio 2&amp;rdquo; to me) feels like it&amp;rsquo;s offering less programming than ever, but the programs they do have are quite good. &lt;a href=&#34;http://radio.garden&#34;&gt;Radio Garden&lt;/a&gt; is a great way to spend an evening at home with or without drugs. Now that iPhones can play music and Shazam at the same time, you can build spectacular playlists.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;You&amp;rsquo;re welcome.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-10&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-10&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782070958/FF183864-AAA8-46FC-AD8D-778CF33E2715_fyphox.jpg&#34; width=&#34;512&#34; height=&#34;399&#34; alt=&#34;Smells Like Back of Old Hot Radio, Edward Ruscha, 1976&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/edward-ruscha/smells-like-back-of-old-hot-radio-1976&#34;&gt;Smells Like Back of Old Hot Radio&lt;/a&gt; / Edward Ruscha, 1976&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-11&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-11&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;💻 A theory of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nngroup.com/articles/information-foraging/&#34;&gt;how people navigate&lt;/a&gt; the web. / Related: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.codastory.com/disinformation/information-war/stop-drinking-from-the-toilet/&#34;&gt;Stop drinking from the toilet&lt;/a&gt;! / How to &lt;a href=&#34;https://modem.io/blog/blog-monetization/&#34;&gt;monetize a blog&lt;/a&gt;. / 🍽️ How the web changed the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.eater.com/24236610/garlicky-lemony-brothy-recipe-names-history&#34;&gt;language of recipes&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Perhaps at some future date we’ll declare that on that day in April, the trend of naming recipes with conversational adjectives officially died.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🗄️ Another reason why redundant and widespread archiving is important: All of the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wired.com/story/music-industry-hard-drive-storage-archives/&#34;&gt;music industry hard drives&lt;/a&gt; are starting to die. &lt;mark&gt;❝Entropy wins, sometimes much faster than you’d expect.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🍿&lt;a href=&#34;https://rarefilmm.com&#34;&gt;RareFilmm&lt;/a&gt;. / 📻 1.4Tb of &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/download/djmixes_collection_by_oVPN.to_v2/BBC%20Essential%20Mix/&#34;&gt;BBC Essential Mixes&lt;/a&gt;. / 📱The desperation of the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-desperation-of-the-instagram-photo-dump&#34;&gt;Instagram photo dump&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Nonchalance achieved chalantly is nothing new, but the way it is being encouraged on social media today reflects increasing structural limitations to life online.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / ⚱️&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/books/fredric-jameson-dead.html&#34;&gt;Fredric Jameson&lt;/a&gt; died. / 📰 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.adweek.com/media/vice-subscription-magazine-relaunch/&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vice&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; returns to print (joining &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.billboard.com/pro/spin-magazine-returns-print-editor-in-chief-bob-guccione-jr/&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;SPIN&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.forbes.com/sites/susannahbreslin/2024/08/08/playboy-to-bring-back-its-print-magazine-with-annual-edition/&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Playboy&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;). / 🚀 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ginifab.com/feeds/cm_to_inch/actual_size_ruler.html&#34;&gt;The Most Accurate Online Ruler&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://perthirtysix.com/tool/lottery-simulator&#34;&gt;Lottery Simulator&lt;/a&gt;. (Using my family&amp;rsquo;s birthdays as numbers, I ran it through ~10-million PowerBall simulations and won $4 twice.) / For the my Wordle peeps: &lt;a href=&#34;https://eightile.com&#34;&gt;Eightile&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://payoncealternatives.com&#34;&gt;Pay Once Alternatives&lt;/a&gt; to popular subscription apps. / Free font: &lt;a href=&#34;https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/&#34;&gt;Comic Mono&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://accumulationofthings.com/twine/radio/&#34;&gt;Radio Static&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-12&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-12&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;Two things I strongly believe in: public media and portable content. Which is why I&amp;rsquo;m more than a little dismayed that the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/rss/&#34;&gt;RSS feeds&lt;/a&gt; from CBC News stopped working over a month ago. I figured it was a known issue and they&amp;rsquo;d get to it, but then three weeks went by and I started to get an uneasy feeling. Eventually, I submitted a support ticket, but I kind of knew what the answer was going to be and I was right: &lt;mark&gt;❝Unfortunately accessing our content via RSS feed is not popular with many users and so resources are generally being allocated to other areas and fixes for glitches with current RSS feeds are not being prioritized. I&amp;rsquo;m sorry I don&amp;rsquo;t have better news.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Fucking hell, the internet is a goddamned disaster right now.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Related: For so many reasons, &lt;a href=&#34;https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/16/keep-it-really-simple-stupid/#read-receipts-are-you-kidding-me-seriously-fuck-that-noise&#34;&gt;you should be using an RSS reader&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝It&amp;rsquo;s still true that the new, good internet will require a movement to overcome the collective action problems and the legal barriers to disenshittifying things. Almost nothing you do as an individual is going to make a difference. But using RSS will!❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Also related: the new &lt;a href=&#34;https://reederapp.com&#34;&gt;Reeder app&lt;/a&gt; is really nice.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-13&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-13&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782071066/C13040D1-99C5-420A-9ACA-3D0055F3DC9C_iigqir.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;598&#34; alt=&#34;Blind News Dealer, Ralph Fasanella, 1947&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://hellnet.work/8831/&#34;&gt;Blind News Dealer&lt;/a&gt; / Ralph Fasanella / 1947&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-14&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-14&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-3&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/07/magazine/netflix-library-viewer-numbers.html&#34;&gt;Lost in Netflix&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝What we’re paying for, in the end, is not any one show, or any three or 10 or 50 shows, but rather this fathomless sense of abundance.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.fatherly.com/entertainment/watership-down-retrospective-kids-and-family&#34;&gt;cartoon&lt;/a&gt; that still haunts me. &lt;mark&gt;❝The demise of Bambi’s mother, the bear fight from &lt;em&gt;The Fox and The Hound&lt;/em&gt;, and Mufasa plummeting into a stampede in &lt;em&gt;The Lion King&lt;/em&gt; are among some of the most traumatizing moments in the history of kids’ animated feature films. Yet, none of those moments hold a candle to Watership Down, a movie about murder bunnies that has scarred an entire generation.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / Take home your own &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.404media.co/tinkerers-are-taking-old-redbox-kiosks-home-and-reverse-engineering-them/&#34;&gt;Redbox&lt;/a&gt; kiosk. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/01/arts/frank-fritz-dead.html&#34;&gt;Frank Fritz&lt;/a&gt; died. / 💻 A good and fun &lt;a href=&#34;https://interconnected.org/home/2024/10/11/filtered&#34;&gt;conspiracy theory&lt;/a&gt;. / Trends in AI: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.8ball.report/p/the-archival-look&#34;&gt;The archival look&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Flat and slick is being replaced with archival graininess. Photorealism is being modulated with the illustrative. The Archival Look is exceptional artifice, an attempt to rescue aura from techno-sterility. It’s the aesthetic equivalent of digging through your flatscreen’s options menu to turn off ‘auto-smoothing’—that annoying preset that makes everything you watch look like Masterpiece Theatre.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 📓 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/09/26/control-is-controlled-by-its-need-to-control-my-basic-electronics-course/?mc_cid=88bd647877&amp;mc_eid=efc7b07cf3&#34;&gt;Control is controlled by its need to control&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Let me begin by insisting that I learned nothing.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / ♟️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.openculture.com/2024/10/kurt-vonneguts-lost-board-game-is-finally-for-sale.html&#34;&gt;Kurt Vonnegut&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rsquo;s board game. / 🎧 &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.ph/hFJqf&#34;&gt;The Divorce Tapes&lt;/a&gt;. / 🗄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://hellnet.work/8831/&#34;&gt;The 88x31 Archive&lt;/a&gt;. / A collection of &lt;a href=&#34;https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today&#34;&gt;active internet forums&lt;/a&gt;. / 📻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://walzr.com/bop-spotter&#34;&gt;Bop Spotter&lt;/a&gt;. I really hope people start setting these things up in public spaces all over the world. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.dookiedemastered.com&#34;&gt;Dookie&lt;/a&gt;, now available for GameBoy. / Keep &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/10/congress-fights-to-keep-am-radio-in-cars/&#34;&gt;radio in cars&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx8cUBEHXRw&#34;&gt;There is no news tonight&lt;/a&gt;. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-39633603&#34;&gt;About&lt;/a&gt;.) / 🏀 Every outdoor &lt;a href=&#34;https://pudding.cool/2024/09/courts/&#34;&gt;basketball court&lt;/a&gt; in the USA. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://petapixel.com/2015/10/15/why-old-sports-photos-often-have-a-blue-haze/&#34;&gt;Sports photos&lt;/a&gt; used to look a lot cooler. / 🎨 The case against &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2023/04/12/the-case-against-roy-lichtenstein/&#34;&gt;Roy Lichtenstein&lt;/a&gt;. / When &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-ai-weiwei-sculpture-purposely-smashed-bologna-gallery&#34;&gt;destroying art&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the art (or, the art of being an asshole).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-15&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-15&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2024/pod-loser-ep-10-marshall-on-the-beach.mp3&#34;&gt;Marshall On the Beach&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-16&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-16&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-4&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🔗 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/the-banality-of-online-recommendation-culture&#34;&gt;banality&lt;/a&gt; of Pop Loser. &lt;mark&gt;❝Recommendations online are ubiquitous—we have posted our likes on the Internet since the earliest days of Facebook profiles—but “taste,” with its suggestion of deeper knowledge, perhaps, of why or how something is good, transforms the act of recommending into something specialized, with an aura of irreplaceability.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🍿 I have been saying this for years: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theringer.com/movies/2024/10/23/24270869/repertory-revival-cinema-old-movie-screenings-vidiots-film-at-lincoln&#34;&gt;the future of movies is just old movies&lt;/a&gt;. / 🤖 When does the robot decide your &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.404media.co/when-does-instagram-decide-a-nipple-becomes-female/&#34;&gt;nipple is female&lt;/a&gt;? / 🪐 Manifesto of the committee to &lt;a href=&#34;https://thenewinquiry.com/manifesto-of-the-committee-to-abolish-outer-space/&#34;&gt;abolish outer space&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝For unimaginable eons there will only be a few scattered particles sailing across a total void. If two happen to meet, a single positronium atom might form, float briefly, and decay again, and this single atom might be the first thing to happen in the entire universe for millions of years.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🧠 When does your &lt;a href=&#34;https://nautil.us/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber-236051/&#34;&gt;brain decide to be afraid&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;mark&gt;❝Honnold is history’s greatest ever climber in the free solo style, meaning he ascends without a rope or protective equipment of any kind. […] The concerned scientist leaned in close, shot a glance toward Honnold, and said, “That kid’s amygdala isn’t firing.”❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_vbYmPm_zU&#34;&gt;David Lynch Presents Interview Project&lt;/a&gt;. / 📸 The frightening familiarity of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-frightening-familiarity-of-late-nineties-office-photos&#34;&gt;late-nineties office photos&lt;/a&gt;. / 📱 &lt;a href=&#34;https://homescreenhoroscope.replit.app&#34;&gt;Homescreen Confessions&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/11/04/nextdoor-reacts-to-the-rapture&#34;&gt;NextDoor&lt;/a&gt; after the rapture. &lt;mark&gt;❝Very suspicious man with wings seen on North Elm yelling about end of the world. Hate that mental patients are just free to harass whomever and the police can’t do anything about it.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://lynx.boo/update&#34;&gt;Lynx.boo&lt;/a&gt; is a simple free linktree. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.bulletjournal.click/&#34;&gt;BulletJournal.click&lt;/a&gt; is a simple free task manager. / 💻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.bryanbraun.com/2024/10/25/before-you-buy-a-domain-name-first-check-to-see-if-its-haunted/&#34;&gt;Haunted domains&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;http://archivebox.io/&#34;&gt;ArchiveBox&lt;/a&gt;, self-hosted internet archiving. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://fav.farm/&#34;&gt;Fav.farm&lt;/a&gt; turns emojis into favicons. / 📖 The Met has over &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.metmuseum.org/met-publications/all?waysToRead=downloadPdf&#34;&gt;1,000 art books&lt;/a&gt; you can download for free. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-venerable-and-time-tested-guide&#34;&gt;Chicago&lt;/a&gt; turns 18. (I’m still rocking a 15.)/ 👾 &lt;a href=&#34;https://eieio.games/paccam/&#34;&gt;PacCam&lt;/a&gt; (prepare to feel silly). / &lt;a href=&#34;https://gizmodo.com/feds-say-you-dont-have-a-right-to-check-out-retro-video-games-like-library-books-2000516767&#34;&gt;Video games&lt;/a&gt; and libraries. / 🙈 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o&#34;&gt;Math&lt;/a&gt;: still humourless. / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/business/murray-mccory-dead.html&#34;&gt;Murray McCory&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/movies/paul-morrissey-dead.html&#34;&gt;Paul Morrissey&lt;/a&gt; died. / 🎧 The new not-Pitchfork is called &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.hearingthings.co/&#34;&gt;Hearing Things&lt;/a&gt;. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/15/business/media/pitchfork-hearing-things.html&#34;&gt;Story&lt;/a&gt;.) / &lt;a href=&#34;https://musictech.com/news/industry/future-music-magazine-is-closing-32-years/&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Future Music&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is no more. I was a subscriber for a few years just for all the free software samples. / 🌪️ Redbox and the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.404media.co/redboxs-last-dvd-twister-is-unrentable-in-remaining-redbox-kiosks-and-no-one-knows-why/&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Twister&lt;/em&gt; bug&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-17&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-17&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;iframe src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/KjLa69vkY1Y?si=b_Sqk8hAJjZ4GsXH&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allowfullscreen class=&#34;video&#34;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;social-needia&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Social needia. &lt;a href=&#34;#social-needia&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Yes, I am on &lt;a href=&#34;https://bsky.app/profile/tylerhellard.bsky.social&#34;&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;. And &lt;a href=&#34;https://mstdn.ca/@poploser&#34;&gt;Mastodon&lt;/a&gt;. And even &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.threads.net/@poploser&#34;&gt;Threads&lt;/a&gt;, although I mostly hate Threads. I’ve been watching the Bluesky cuddle puddle with fascination and I am enjoying everyone’s enthusiasm, but it feels like a lot of people are running headlong into the same issues we had with Twitter, which was a problematic, usually awful and occasionally dangerous place a long, long time before Elon showed up.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I don’t know, follow your heart, I guess.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;But, at the very least, be cautious about the time you’re sinking into building an audience on another privately owned service with buckets of VC cash and no current revenue model, because on a long enough timeline they will probably fuck you. I only say this because they pretty much all have fucked us — Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Tumblr, Reddit, TikTok, etc., etc., etc. &lt;a href=&#34;https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/&#34;&gt;Cory Doctorow has thoughts&lt;/a&gt; that are worth reading before you’re in too deep.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;And probably that moment you’re trying to recapture, that slice of time in internet history (which was really nice and I miss it too), is over forever and while we can mimic those vibes for a short period, the Bluesky push is &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.ph/2024.11.16-190515/https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/bluesky-bubble-twitter-replacement/680679/&#34;&gt;just a relapse&lt;/a&gt; and not a cure for anything.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-18&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-18&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782071249/EEF734FA-7E70-4308-B14C-4F7F19F9DB2D_te8xt1.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;783&#34; alt=&#34;Analysis of diverse perversities, Paul Klee, 1922&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/analysis-of-diverse-perversities-1922&#34;&gt;Analysis of diverse perversities&lt;/a&gt; / Paul Klee / 1922&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-19&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-19&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-5&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📰 If &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20241108-its-not-close-israel-committing-genocide-concludes-wikipedia-ending-editorial-debate/&#34;&gt;Wikipedia is truth&lt;/a&gt;, then what’s happening in Gaza is genocide. &lt;mark&gt;❝Editors supporting the inclusion argued that it met the page’s criteria of events “classified by significant scholarship” as genocide. They also pointed out that the Gaza situation had stronger scholarly consensus than some existing entries on the list, such as the Darfur and Rohingya genocides.❞&lt;/mark&gt;. / Related: &lt;a href=&#34;https://thebaffler.com/latest/a-rupture-in-time-aziza&#34;&gt;A rupture in time&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝A year: a calendar, or weight, or knife. Each body an archive, dense and beautiful as life itself—and more of them crushed, starved, incinerated every day. For the perpetrators of the genocide, temporality is something to be mastered, bent.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🗒️ A &lt;a href=&#34;https://jan.miksovsky.com/posts/2024/11-12-momboard&#34;&gt;nice story about technology&lt;/a&gt;. 🪑 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.dezeen.com/2024/10/23/love-mid-century-modern-makes-me-sad/&#34;&gt;Mid-century modern&lt;/a&gt;, I love you but you’re bringing me down. &lt;mark&gt;❝It’s not the fault of a bunch of attractive designs that this proved to be a mirage, even a fraud. But mid-century modern was wrapped up in that delusion, even contributed to it. And the design industry enjoyed, and continues to enjoy, the ride just a little too much.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🍿 &lt;a href=&#34;https://m.youtube.com/@cultcinemaclassics&#34;&gt;Cult Cinema Classics&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://ww2supercut.substack.com/p/combining-143-world-war-ii-movies&#34;&gt;World War II&lt;/a&gt;, a supercut. / Yes, it is okay to &lt;a href=&#34;https://i-d.co/article/streaming-arthouse-movies-john-waters-netflix-2024/&#34;&gt;pirate&lt;/a&gt; (some (but kinda most)) movies. &lt;mark&gt;❝The work that survives, it turns out, is the work that is out there to be seen.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / An analysis of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.titledrops.net/&#34;&gt;title drops&lt;/a&gt; in movies. / Movies that sound like &lt;a href=&#34;https://letterboxd.com/conchiclator/list/movies-that-sound-like-fortnite-locations/?_bhlid=770af63bd9d773c84c15a85a54e32e0813b2310f&#34;&gt;Fortnite&lt;/a&gt; locations. / 💿 &lt;a href=&#34;http://tinfoil.com/&#34;&gt;Tinfoil&lt;/a&gt;, early recorded sounds. / 🎧 I don’t have &lt;a href=&#34;https://idonthavespotify.donado.co/&#34;&gt;Spotify&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0024m8q?partner=uk.co.bbc&amp;origin=share-mobile&#34;&gt;Quincy Jones&lt;/a&gt; tribute on BBC 6. / 🎹 &lt;a href=&#34;https://draw.audio/&#34;&gt;Draw.audio&lt;/a&gt;. / 📻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.radio-browser.info/&#34;&gt;RadioBrowser&lt;/a&gt;. / 🎨 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.semafor.com/article/11/11/2024/massive-fake-art-network-uncovered&#34;&gt;Fakes news&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/10/18/do-dogs-know-what-art-is/&#34;&gt;Do dogs know what art is&lt;/a&gt;? / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/07/technology/elwood-edwards-aol-dead.html&#34;&gt;Elwood Edwards&lt;/a&gt; died. / ⚾️ The science of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/04/science/baseball-mud-mlb.html&#34;&gt;baseball mud&lt;/a&gt;. / 🍄 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.mushroomcoloratlas.com/&#34;&gt;The Mushroom Colour Atlas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-20&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-20&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;art-of-bore&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Art of bore. &lt;a href=&#34;#art-of-bore&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’ve been thinking about art a lot lately. Mostly it has been in a separating-art-from-artist context, which is stupid idea that I think devalues both, but it leads to a lot of existential “What even is art?” ideas. My initial response to the suggestion people can’t really tell the difference between human- and AI-made art, and, in fact, kind of prefer the AI stuff, was “Jesus fucking Christ what the fuck has happened to people’s fucking brains.” &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-art-turing&#34;&gt;Reading&lt;/a&gt; the actual “study” and its “results” and “conclusions” only forced me to jam a few more “fucks” in.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://maxread.substack.com/p/people-prefer-ai-art-because-people?post_id=151984955&amp;r=16ptr&#34;&gt;Max Read&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;mark&gt;❝In fact, the dental-office “badness” of so much of the A.I. art is precisely why I don’t dispute Alexander’s assertion that people preferred it. Like any LLM output, A.I.-generated images are designed to please, not to provoke. I’ve argued before that these images are, by their nature, almost unavoidably kitsch–comforting, straightforward, accessible, flattering. And people love kitsch!❞&lt;/mark&gt; There’s that, but also the whole thing feels designed to trick people, which is infuriating enough, but it also shows a total lack of thinking about what art is, how art is made, and what art is for. There’s another version of this using &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-76900-1&#34;&gt;poetry&lt;/a&gt; (further discussed in the Read link above) and fuck fucking fuck I don’t want to talk about it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The discussion around AI bounces around between genuinely fascinating and wildly stupid, but I don’t think we can understand it in an artistic context because we’re constantly wrestling with our relationship with art, which is kind of &lt;em&gt;the entire point of art&lt;/em&gt;. Or at least &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; art, which is a whole other discussion, but probably one you want to have before you start suggesting a computer can do it at all, never mind better.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As usual, I have no answers to suggest, just things to yell about. But I do keep coming back to &lt;a href=&#34;https://typo.social/@Lettermin/113163089663497919&#34;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; nugget.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I think there might really be something to this idea (though without the religious implications). There’s something people have that computers, at least for now and I think/hope forever, don’t. Shit is keeping me up at night.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-21&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-21&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782071359/6F5FE8EF-5CEC-4C86-85CC-7321F4476893_d5aybt.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;464&#34; alt=&#34;A Friend in Need, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, 1903&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/cassius-marcellus-coolidge/a-friend-in-need-1903&#34;&gt;A Friend in Need&lt;/a&gt; / Cassius Marcellus Coolidge / 1903&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-22&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-22&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-6&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-6&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🎨 &lt;a href=&#34;https://museumofbadart.org/&#34;&gt;The Museum Of Bad Art&lt;/a&gt;. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB6UhGbyXfE&#34;&gt;Video&lt;/a&gt;.) / 🤖 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/&#34;&gt;Oops we did it again&lt;/a&gt;. / And &lt;a href=&#34;https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/27/blueskys-open-api-means-anyone-can-scrape-your-data-for-ai-training/&#34;&gt;again&lt;/a&gt;. / (But while Pokemon Go might be suspect, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.animefeminist.com/porygon-was-innocent-an-epileptic-perspective-on-pokemons-electric-soldier-porygon/&#34;&gt;Porygon&lt;/a&gt; was innocent.) / 🖥️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wired.com/story/at-age-50-microsoft-is-an-ai-giant-an-open-source-lover-and-bad-as-it-ever-was/&#34;&gt;Microsoft is 50&lt;/a&gt;. (The article is fine if you want to read it, but I’m mostly posting it because “Microsoft is 50” kind of stunned me.) / The &lt;a href=&#34;https://firehose3d.theo.io&#34;&gt;Bluesky firehose&lt;/a&gt; in 3D. / 🍿 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpuWuZVajiE&#34;&gt;Hundreds of Beavers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. / 📻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.worldsradio.com/&#34;&gt;World’s Radio&lt;/a&gt;. / 📚 &lt;a href=&#34;https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com/&#34;&gt;Literature Clock&lt;/a&gt;. / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://ironicsans.beehiiv.com/p/let-s-visit-some-alternate-timelines&#34;&gt;Failed TV pilots&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://walzr.com/IMG_0001&#34;&gt;IMG_0001&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in “Send to YouTube” button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🧑‍🍳 25 most influential &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/t-magazine/most-influential-cookbooks.html&#34;&gt;cookbooks&lt;/a&gt;. / 🏔️ Find the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.avibagla.com/netelevation&#34;&gt;Net Elevation&lt;/a&gt; of famous dead people. / 🎞️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.flickr.com/photos/41606952@N07/albums/72157623774096448/&#34;&gt;Sugar cube advertising&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-23&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-23&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;wrappers-delight&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Wrapper’s delight. &lt;a href=&#34;#wrappers-delight&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’ve got one more mixtape coming and then I’m wrapping this thing for the year (see what I did there?). I told myself when I kicked off this latest version of &lt;em&gt;Pop Loser&lt;/em&gt; back in January that I’d give it a year and see how it felt. It was pretty good. From what I can tell by getting only stats from “hits” (so retro), tens of you have found your way back. I appreciate that. I’ve sorta set this and my social media presence up in a way that cannot and will not ever “do numbers,” so it’s nice that anyone is following along. I should finish the year-end mixtape later this week, and then I’m going dark until at least February and maybe I’ll just wait until spring. And then probably two volumes next year instead of three. Otherwise, I’ll just keep on more or less as I have been.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If you’re reading this, thanks. Sincerely.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-24&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-24&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782071432/9C84D6C2-E578-4AA6-9A2E-80B92DE4643C_ngutzi.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;405&#34; alt=&#34;Christmas in the Brothel, Edvard Munch, 1905&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/edvard-munch/christmas-in-the-brothel-1905&#34;&gt;Christmas in the Brothel&lt;/a&gt; / Edvard Munch / 1905&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-25&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-25&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;confusions-7&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Confusions. &lt;a href=&#34;#confusions-7&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📱Every &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/&#34;&gt;digital thing&lt;/a&gt; you touch probably sucks. &lt;mark&gt;❝Our digital lives are actively abusive and hostile, riddled with subtle and overt cons. Our apps are ever-changing, adapting not to our needs or conditions, but to the demands of investors and internal stakeholders that have reduced who we are and what we do to an ever-growing selection of manipulatable metrics. It isn’t that you don’t “get” tech, it’s that the tech you use every day is no longer built for you, and as a result feels a very specific kind of insane.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 📰 Classic: &lt;a href=&#34;https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/&#34;&gt;Who goes Nazi?&lt;/a&gt; / 🌎 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/12/tiktok-carbon-footprint&#34;&gt;Ban TikTok&lt;/a&gt;. / ⛓️‍💥 &lt;a href=&#34;https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2025/&#34;&gt;Public domain 2025&lt;/a&gt; kicks off with &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hsxK0UMlQ&#34;&gt;Popeye the Slayer Man&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. / 🍿 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nightflightplus.com&#34;&gt;Night Flight Plus&lt;/a&gt;. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/how-80s-subculture-staple-night-flight-was-reborn-as-a-punk-and-horror-streaming-network/&#34;&gt;Story&lt;/a&gt;.) / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/iozg1gm9snx2oq4bza4jd/AGawAwstU24C6xoEpRe-Sgw?rlkey=vgzm9k3f1m19c6406j892o0py&amp;e=3&amp;dl=0&#34;&gt;Star Wars Grindhouse&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/is-it-a-movie-or-a-film&#34;&gt;Movie or film?&lt;/a&gt; / ⚱️ The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/amazing-kreskin-dead-1.7407334&#34;&gt;Amazing Kreskin&lt;/a&gt; died. / ♟️ I’ve been training for &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/12/tiktok-carbon-footprint&#34;&gt;Open the Microwave&lt;/a&gt; my whole life. / Every &lt;a href=&#34;https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nkHWqYre866xihxN3MnHr5YFzY4gQWDT/edit?pli=1&#34;&gt;board game rulebook&lt;/a&gt; sucks. / 🎛️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/@knobfeel&#34;&gt;Feelin’ knobs&lt;/a&gt; for content. / 🖥️&lt;a href=&#34;https://mac-pet.com/&#34;&gt;Mac Pet&lt;/a&gt; is cute. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://infinitestroll.com/&#34;&gt;Infinite Stroll&lt;/a&gt; is soothing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-26&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-26&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-3&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2024/2024.mp3&#34;&gt;2024: Worst One Yet&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-27&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-27&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 2https://tylerhellard.com/poploser/vol2/Mon, 01 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/poploser/vol2/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pop-loser-vol-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 2 &lt;a href=&#34;#pop-loser-vol-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;April 1, 2024 – June 26, 2024.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Some of the formatting might have been lost when migrating this page.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782065803/7E154234-D2CC-4942-9253-D8E23BC6A5A9_e7hwgi.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;et-two&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Et two? &lt;a href=&#34;#et-two&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;There is no rhyme or reason to the volume structure here other than I like counting things and it builds in breaks I can take basically whenever. Baseball was starting, thus ending Vol. 1 so I could do some fantasy drafting and watch a lot of games. But that’s all done, and after &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.mlb.com/news/blue-jays-no-hit-by-ronel-blanco-astros&#34;&gt;yesterday&lt;/a&gt; I may never watch another baseball game again anyway, so let’s get on with number two.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782065911/571566BC-679A-440E-8CE4-49B4065F1BF7_ocqdxp.jpg&#34; width=&#34;475&#34; height=&#34;340&#34; alt=&#34;&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/keith-haring/untitled-1982-9&#34;&gt;Untitled&lt;/a&gt; / Keith Haring / 1982&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-3&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;let-them-eat-snake-and-other-confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Let them eat snake (and other confusions). &lt;a href=&#34;#let-them-eat-snake-and-other-confusions&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🎸 Digging into the &lt;a href=&#34;https://pudding.cool/2024/03/greatest-music/&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/em&gt; 500&lt;/a&gt;. The nobleness of this project is matched only by its scientificicity. &lt;mark&gt;❝Beyond accounting for new releases, there must be other factors influencing Rolling Stone’s choices. This project uses Rolling Stone album rankings – twenty years apart in time – to determine what influences ‘greatness’.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🗿 &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/RhZ058-lI6g?si=TkhfnzAjPFlwUlrI&#34;&gt;The future will be weird af&lt;/a&gt;. (More on &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corecore&#34;&gt;CoreCore&lt;/a&gt;.) / 🐍 I hope you like the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-19/python-snake-meat-efficient-source-of-protein-study-finds/103603328&#34;&gt;taste of python&lt;/a&gt;. / 🎨 There’s a new &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/03/books/review/radiant-keith-haring-brad-gooch.html&#34;&gt;Keith Haring&lt;/a&gt; biography. / 🤑 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.compactmag.com/article/too-late-for-late-capitalism/&#34;&gt;Too late capitalism&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The odd thing about the undying attachment to the term “late capitalism,” of which Kornbluh’s book is but the latest manifestation, is that it refers to an epoch that ended, by all serious accounts, in the 1970s.❞&lt;/mark&gt; (The best line of the review comes late: &lt;mark&gt;❝’The masses of people must implement transformative solutions like decarbonization, universal care, and vibrant cities that prioritize people over profit, liberate sexuality, and combat racist imperialism with democratic internationalism.’ OK. Does roasting Maggie Nelson bring us closer to this desideratum?❞&lt;/mark&gt;) / 🥃 Why is the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.futilitycloset.com/2024/03/18/in-a-word-670/&#34;&gt;Angostura bitters&lt;/a&gt; label bigger than the bottle? / 🗄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://ubu.com/resources/about.html&#34;&gt;UbuWeb&lt;/a&gt;, a pirate shadow library consisting of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts. / 👁️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ways-of-seeing.com/&#34;&gt;Ways Of Seeing&lt;/a&gt;, always worth revisiting. / 🎞️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.moviepostersperfected.com/&#34;&gt;Movie Posters Perfected&lt;/a&gt;. / 🧑‍🚀 &lt;a href=&#34;https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/multimedia/online-activities/the-lost-universe/&#34;&gt;NASA made a TTRPG&lt;/a&gt; and it looks kinda fun.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-4&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;Happy &lt;strong&gt;Rex Manning Day&lt;/strong&gt; to all who celebrate. I hope you like blue cheese.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-5&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-5&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2024/pod-loser-ep-4-baseball.mp3&#34;&gt;Baseball&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-6&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-6&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;wieners-and-losers-and-other-confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Wieners and losers (and other confusions). &lt;a href=&#34;#wieners-and-losers-and-other-confusions&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🤑 It always ends in ads, even for &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wsj.com/tech/discord-to-start-showing-ads-for-gamers-to-boost-revenue-bf5848b9&#34;&gt;Discord&lt;/a&gt;. / 🤡 How &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theverge.com/24094310/vice-media-layoffs-bankruptcy-shane-smith&#34;&gt;Vice&lt;/a&gt; fell to pieces. (Spoiler: there are no surprises here. It was dumb people making bad decisions guided entirely by a Silicon Valley capitalist ethos.) &lt;mark&gt;❝One executive described Dubuc’s hires as “a fucking clown show”; another called them “comical”; a third called them “cartoonish”; a fourth called them a “screwball cast of suits”; a fifth told me he’d learned valuable lessons from them about what never to do with a company.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🤩 An oral history of &lt;em&gt;that&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://latenighter.com/features/an-oral-history-of-madonnas-infamous-1994-david-letterman-appearance/0/&#34;&gt;Madonna appearance on Letterman&lt;/a&gt;. / 🎸 A new &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebaeOzwBqSY&#34;&gt;Prince&lt;/a&gt; track dropped. / 🌭 You had me at “&lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/big-hot-dog-must-tell-the-truth&#34;&gt;Big Hot Dog&lt;/a&gt;.” &lt;mark&gt;❝‌Now I know that a billion of anything is so many that it’s impossible to really comprehend, so let’s examine some other stats Big Hot Dog provides.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🐟 &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.is/2021.02.05-143822/https://www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/mcdonald-s-filet-o-fish-advertisement-featuring-phil-a-o/image_998a08c0-f28f-5b7a-b911-1f8414bc1d11.htmlhttps:/www.nwitimes.com/entertainment/columnists/offbeat/mcdonald-s-filet-o-fish-adv%5B%E2%80%A6%5Ding-phil-a-o/image_998a08c0-f28f-5b7a-b911-1f8414bc1d11.html&#34;&gt;Phil A. O’Fish&lt;/a&gt;. / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/joe-flaherty-obit-1.7161032&#34;&gt;Joe Flaherty&lt;/a&gt; died. / 🎨 &lt;a href=&#34;https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hippolyte-hodeau-trench-art/&#34;&gt;Trench art&lt;/a&gt;. / 🤖 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.404media.co/email/f03d4cfc-84b4-4a2b-bd95-33432235c0f7/&#34;&gt;robots are archiving the work of the robots&lt;/a&gt; and I’m hopeful pretty soon we won’t need people at all.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-7&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-7&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;I put these posts together using a running text file on my phone, which I then publish when it feels full enough. After a few months of playing with form, the text file’s structure includes this space up top. An opener! A place for my thoughts and writing that’s separate from what’s below and clearly more important because it’s first. In the last post, its said “Happy Rex Manning Day” and then referenced the deleted and re-inserted blue-cheese-salad-dressing-on-the-dick scene. My thoughts! My writing! They can’t all be bangers, I guess.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Anyway, here’s a &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/columnists-and-their-lives-of-quiet&#34;&gt;pretty great takedown of columnists and columns&lt;/a&gt;, so, at least for today, I can fill this space with a related and amusing pull quote: &lt;mark&gt;❝Most columnists are mediocre. This is not their fault. Almost no one on earth is capable of having two good ideas per week. Even the sharpest thinkers on matters of politics and policy and global news can have, at best, one or two good ideas a month, and by definition most of the population of columnists are not the sharpest thinkers in that same population. […] The world is full of overconfident but not smart people, and they must have their champions.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-8&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-8&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782069096/921BC531-EE8C-4863-B7F4-BA904E430A8D_vxta0a.png&#34; alt=&#34;Build-a-Prayer Workshop&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-9&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-9&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;read-swish-boo-swish-and-other-confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Read Swish, boo Swish (and other confusions) &lt;a href=&#34;#read-swish-boo-swish-and-other-confusions&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🛳️ Time is a flat circle (though, as my wife says, all circles are flat) and we’ve come all the way back around to &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.is/1Bicn&#34;&gt;cruise ships are a metaphor for the end of society&lt;/a&gt;. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Supposedly_Fun_Thing_I%27ll_Never_Do_Again&#34;&gt;Again&lt;/a&gt;!) / 📸 Jamie Livingston’s &lt;a href=&#34;https://12ft.io/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2024/04/10/jamie-livingston-photo-of-the-day-perelman-performing-art-center-number-our-days&#34;&gt;daily Polaroids&lt;/a&gt; are back. / 📰 &lt;a href=&#34;https://thebaffler.com/latest/the-miseducation-of-kara-swisher-ongweso&#34;&gt;Kara Swisher’s&lt;/a&gt; attempt at retconning tech journalism and her rather significant role in its many failures continues to go poorly. &lt;mark&gt;❝The long and short of it is that Swisher is not a good journalist—or, framed more generously, that she thrived in an industry with remarkably low standards for which we are still paying the price.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/09/peter-higgs-physicist-who-discovered-higgs-boson-dies-aged-94&#34;&gt;Peter Higgs&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.evanjstrong.com/obituary/Patrick-Walsh#obituary&#34;&gt;Pat Walsh&lt;/a&gt; died. (You don’t know Pat, but he was a friends and the best teacher I ever had.) / 🎥 An unintentionally (I think) amusing (or mean) pair of &lt;em&gt;New Yorker&lt;/em&gt; movies pieces: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/john-cazales-barbaric-squawk&#34;&gt;John Cazale’s Barbaric Squawk&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/can-a-film-star-be-too-good-looking-alain-delon&#34;&gt;Can a Film Star&lt;/a&gt; (who presumably isn’t John Cazale) &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/can-a-film-star-be-too-good-looking-alain-delon&#34;&gt;Be Too Good-Looking&lt;/a&gt;? / 🎸 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.udio.com/&#34;&gt;Udio&lt;/a&gt; lets you “make” AI music and it’s simultaneously deeply satisfying and deeply concerning. / 📝 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/04/15/love-song-with-removed-cyst-sharon-olds-poem&#34;&gt;Love Song, with Removed Cyst&lt;/a&gt;. / 🎹 &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/lTwg4mFF32E?si=x5OeqBOuXmdQCNne&#34;&gt;15-note poly tempo pendulum&lt;/a&gt;. / 💩 &lt;a href=&#34;https://vole.wtf/dog-poo-golf/&#34;&gt;Dog Poo Golf&lt;/a&gt;. / 🏞️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://sites.elliott.computer/one-minute-park/&#34;&gt;One Minute Park&lt;/a&gt;. (Summer goal: contribute a few of these.) / 🗄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://fictionalbrandsarchive.com&#34;&gt;The Fictional Brands Archive&lt;/a&gt;. / ⛹️‍♀️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://arbesman.net/techteams/&#34;&gt;Sports teams&lt;/a&gt; named after technologies. / 👆 &lt;a href=&#34;https://byronicalpatrick.github.io/qwanji/#Pop%20Loser&#34;&gt;QWANJI&lt;/a&gt;. / 📺 I also &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.deezlinks.com/p/its-a-heartless-show-and-that-is?r=e95&#34;&gt;hated &lt;em&gt;Succession&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and now I have a champion. &lt;mark&gt;❝More people need to admit that this is the central viewing experience of Succession: you were either waiting for a good moment to screen grab and turn into a meme, or you are now watching to understand the deeper meme lore. No one actually talks to each other in this show, every sentence is delivered like a bitter slap in the face. Oh, we’re not supposed to like any of these people? Yeah, I think I got that.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🚀 &lt;a href=&#34;https://spacetrashsigns.org&#34;&gt;Space Trash Signs&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-10&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-10&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2024/pop-loser-ep-5-alone-together.mp3&#34;&gt;Alone Together&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-11&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-11&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;There is a type of dystopian fiction where garish advertising is embedded in the landscape—a necessary part of the fabric of an ironic shitty future world where poor people risk some combination of dignity and life for money. In these fictions—&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)&#34;&gt;Minority Report&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; or &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy&#34;&gt;Idiocracy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; or a &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits&#34;&gt;Black Mirror&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;—the ads are pervasive, obnoxious and occasionally legally required. It&amp;rsquo;s satire! A cynical look at where we are headed. A warning to turn back before it&amp;rsquo;s too late. Don&amp;rsquo;t build the &lt;a href=&#34;https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/torment-nexus&#34;&gt;Torment Nexus&lt;/a&gt;, dummies!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Sure glad I don&amp;rsquo;t live in a society capable of creating great things only to hollow them out in the name of slogans and jingles and clicks and money. And if I did, wouldn&amp;rsquo;t it be nice to have &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/&#34;&gt;someone to blame&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;mark&gt;❝After nearly 20 years of building Google Search, Gomes would be relegated to SVP of Education at Google. Gomes, who was a critical part of the original team that made Google Search work, who has been credited with establishing the culture of the world’s largest and most important search engine, was chased out by a growth-hungry managerial types led by Prabhakar Raghavan, a management consultant wearing an engineer costume.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-12&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-12&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782069301/EDE674A0-85ED-4F5B-9BEB-CD985948307C_fzcpnt.jpg&#34; width=&#34;342&#34; height=&#34;500&#34; alt=&#34;Blue head, Gosta Adrian-Nilsson, 1951&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/gosta-adrian-nilsson/blue-head-1951&#34;&gt;Blue head&lt;/a&gt; / Gosta Adrian-Nilsson / 1951&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-13&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-13&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;buy-the-book-and-other-confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Buy the book (and other confusions) &lt;a href=&#34;#buy-the-book-and-other-confusions&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📰 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/business/media/the-onion-sold.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE0.Nrih.oGBYaLXAaMV-&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Onion&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is saved! / 📚 The most depressing thing you&amp;rsquo;ll read today: &lt;a href=&#34;&#34;&gt;Nobody buys books&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The Big Five publishing houses spend most of their money on book advances for big celebrities like Britney Spears and franchise authors like James Patterson and this is the bulk of their business. They also sell a lot of Bibles, repeat best sellers like Lord of the Rings, and children’s books like The Very Hungry Caterpillar. These two market categories (celebrity books and repeat bestsellers from the backlist) make up the entirety of the publishing industry and even fund their vanity project: publishing all the rest of the books we think about when we think about book publishing (which make no money at all and typically sell less than 1,000 copies).❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🌿 &lt;a href=&#34;https://nora.zone/bots/weed.html&#34;&gt;Weed strain name generator&lt;/a&gt;. Fun fact: I used to get paid to name weed strains and I should really examine every choice I made that took me away from that. / 🎶 When do we &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.statsignificant.com/p/when-do-we-stop-finding-new-music&#34;&gt;stop finding new music&lt;/a&gt;? &lt;mark&gt;❝Ultimately, cultural preferences are subject to generational relativism, heavily rooted in the media of our adolescence. It&amp;rsquo;s strange how much your 13-year-old self defines your lifelong artistic tastes. At this age, we&amp;rsquo;re unable to drive, vote, drink alcohol, or pay taxes, yet we&amp;rsquo;re old enough to cultivate enduring musical preferences.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / They found &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.404media.co/email/5b623879-445f-4768-a2a2-3270c8af7688/&#34;&gt;the unfindable song&lt;/a&gt;. (Spoiler: it was porn.) / &lt;a href=&#34;https://djphonetic.brianfoo.com/?speaker=Henry%20Kissinger&#34;&gt;Beatbox with Henry Kissinger&lt;/a&gt;. / 📺 All of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/freakazoid_202210&#34;&gt;Freakazoid&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is now on the Internet Archive. / 👾 As the Crow Flies is a simple browser game that looks like my beloved &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex&#34;&gt;Vectrex&lt;/a&gt;. / The &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/eAkb2mpybnM?si=vxtsnMD3VpYz38dv&#34;&gt;entire universe in Minecraft&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-14&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-14&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782069659/15CF1FAB-7208-4901-8601-F5B2B1216C0A_gtgvga.jpg&#34; width=&#34;530&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;Jill, Frank Stella, 1959&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/frank-stella/jill-1959&#34;&gt;Jill&lt;/a&gt;, Frank Stella, 1959&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-15&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-15&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;quoth-the-penguin-and-other-confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Quoth the penguin (and other confusions). &lt;a href=&#34;#quoth-the-penguin-and-other-confusions&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🍿 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/streaming-behind-bars-phillip-vance-smith-ii/&#34;&gt;Streaming media in prison&lt;/a&gt; is like streaming media outside of prison, it just has more layers of people gouging their fair share. &lt;mark&gt;❝Each prisoner is assigned a tablet free of charge, but to watch films, we must buy a bundle of minutes. I can buy only 500 minutes of the Premium App Bundle for $10, which hosts three film apps. We must use all 500 minutes or forfeit them. New releases are available on the Premium Access Pass, which allows us to buy only 200 minutes for $8. The Premium Pass Bundle expires in 96 hours.❞&lt;/mark&gt; But also&amp;hellip; / &amp;hellip;the comfortable problem of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/27/arts/television/mid-tv.html&#34;&gt;Mid TV&lt;/a&gt;. / Locally: The &lt;a href=&#34;https://thewalrus.ca/national-film-board-brink/&#34;&gt;NFB&lt;/a&gt; is running out of money and soon we will have no nice Canadian things. / 📻 Normal music reviews don&amp;rsquo;t make sense for &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/why-normal-music-reviews-no-longer-make-sense-for-taylor-swift&#34;&gt;Taylor Swift&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The Swiftverse is thousands of comments under Instagram posts, an additional three hundred and thirty-two million dollars for the NFL, a worldwide run on bracelet beads, and the Fed wondering why inflation persists.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / Fall asleep to the dulcet tones of the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.sleepbaseball.com&#34;&gt;Northwoods Baseball Radio Network&lt;/a&gt;. / Some &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.radioisaforeigncountry.org/mixtapes&#34;&gt;mixtapes&lt;/a&gt;. / 📰 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.penguin.co.uk/five-dials-archive&#34;&gt;Five Dials&lt;/a&gt; is done, but the entire archive is online. (Or skip to the &lt;a href=&#34;https://fivedials.com/files/fivedials_no30.pdf&#34;&gt;Camus issue&lt;/a&gt;.) / ✍️ Poe&amp;rsquo;s &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&#34;https://medium.com/adams-notebook/edgar-allan-poe-the-pingu-c460d65b9088&#34;&gt;The Pingu&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;rdquo; &lt;mark&gt;❝While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a clapping, as of flippers briskly slapping, slapping on my igloo floor.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / Wes Anderson&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=tUSRyAha37w&#34;&gt;Montblanc&lt;/a&gt; ad. / 🖥️ The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/&#34;&gt;internet may be in ruin&lt;/a&gt;, but I’m always a sucker for interesting ideas wrapped in tortured metaphor. &lt;mark&gt;❝Our online spaces are not ecosystems, though tech firms love that word. They’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle feedlot or battery chicken farms that madden the creatures trapped within. But what if we thought of the internet not as a doomsday “hyperobject,” but as a damaged and struggling ecosystem facing destruction? What if we looked at it not with helpless horror at the eldritch encroachment of its current controllers, but with compassion, constructiveness and hope? We don’t need to repair the internet’s infrastructure. We need to rewild it.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / Copy the &lt;a href=&#34;https://copyshrugemoji.com&#34;&gt;shrug emoji&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://userinyerface.com/&#34;&gt;User Inyerface&lt;/a&gt;. / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://thewalrus.ca/alice-munro/&#34;&gt;Alice Munro&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/04/arts/frank-stella-dead.html&#34;&gt;Frank Stella&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://slate.com/culture/2024/05/steve-albini-dead-nirvana-pixies-albums-producer.html&#34;&gt;Steve Albini&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/rex-murphy-bob-wakeham-obituary-1.7200299&#34;&gt;Rex Murphy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/movies/roger-corman-dead.html&#34;&gt;Roger Corman&lt;/a&gt; died. / 💼 The story of &lt;a href=&#34;https://theamericanscholar.org/tales-from-an-attic/&#34;&gt;427 suitcases&lt;/a&gt; from A New York State Mental Hospital. / 👾 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://apps.apple.com/us/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688&#34;&gt;Delta&lt;/a&gt; emulator is the new best app on my phone.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-16&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-16&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;robot-rot-and-other-confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Robot rot (and other confusions). &lt;a href=&#34;#robot-rot-and-other-confusions&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;♟️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.businessinsider.com/sexism-cheating-nightclubs-internet-inside-dark-heart-modern-chess-toxic-2024-5&#34;&gt;Chess on the internet&lt;/a&gt; is mostly like everything else on the internet: predictably awful. &lt;mark&gt;❝Chess&amp;rsquo; problems aren&amp;rsquo;t unique. But it is uniquely positioned to act as an accelerant for the internet&amp;rsquo;s worst impulses: sexism, abuse, cheating, elitism, and toxic nerdery.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / Related: &lt;a href=&#34;https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/hans-niemann-chess-championship-cheating-scandal-interview.html&#34;&gt;Everybody hates Hans&lt;/a&gt;. / Less related: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/05/15/scrabble-anonymous/&#34;&gt;Scrabble, Anonymous&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The unwilling, unconscious anagramming of words is the primary side effect of a life devoted to Scrabble. This is ultimately what the game is about: memorizing words with no concern for their meaning.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🍿 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL30RAv-0lkxHdTcoGGgx5L6eXIHnnrEHC&#34;&gt;3,000 free movies&lt;/a&gt; on YouTube. / Roger Corman&amp;rsquo;s &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/oA7LcG4ch3A?si=Bc-JUR_F1iahg4-r&#34;&gt;Fantastic Four&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://film-grab.com&#34;&gt;Filmgrab&lt;/a&gt;, collected stills from films. / 💻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true/619937/?ref=404media.co&#34;&gt;Dead internet&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-spam-isnt-the-dead-internet-its-the-zombie-internet/&#34;&gt;zombie internet&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content&#34;&gt;vampire internet&lt;/a&gt;, oh my. / Related: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/&#34;&gt;Rotting internet&lt;/a&gt;. / Also related: The ruin of &lt;a href=&#34;https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html&#34;&gt;DeviantArt&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://udm14.com&#34;&gt;Google&lt;/a&gt; fixed. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://perthirtysix.com/communal-plot-daily-poll&#34;&gt;The Communal Plot&lt;/a&gt;, a daily visualization we all build together. / 🛻 Have you seen a &lt;a href=&#34;https://defector.com/have-you-seen-a-cybertruck-yet&#34;&gt;Cybertruck&lt;/a&gt; yet? &lt;mark&gt;❝If there is anything to take away from this, it is that I once had an attribute that might have allowed me to make it extremely big in the contemporary automotive industry, which is &amp;ldquo;acting like a precocious doofus child while saying possibly-false car-related stuff in a way that favorably inclined observers found compelling.&amp;rdquo; That can get you pretty far in the industry. I know this in a way that I didn&amp;rsquo;t just a few days ago, because, finally, I have seen a Tesla Cybertruck with my own eyes.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / ⚾ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/sports/toronto-blue-jays-fan-foul-ball.html&#34;&gt;Hero&lt;/a&gt;. / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/nkOQ46F8MbQ?si=-_FnGY2F9ttZL5Mf&#34;&gt;Harmony Korine&lt;/a&gt; on Letterman. / 📱 Point your phone at your Lego and &lt;a href=&#34;https://brickit.app&#34;&gt;Brickit&lt;/a&gt; will design stuff to build.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-17&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-17&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782069890/258F8D75-9ED6-41AE-A05F-1580DCFF07C7_mglb84.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;432&#34; alt=&#34;Rotten Tomatoes, Elina Brotherus&#34;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/elina-brotherus/rotten-tomatoes-2015&#34;&gt;Rotten Tomatoes&lt;/a&gt;, Elina Brotherus&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-18&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-18&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2024/pod-loser-ep-6-call-me.mp3&#34;&gt;Call Me&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-19&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-19&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;i-tamagotchu-babe&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;I tamagotchu babe&amp;hellip; &lt;a href=&#34;#i-tamagotchu-babe&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;I recently cut my phone back to the bone, deleting any and every app that I found myself using to mindlessly fill time. All social media gone, Slack can stay, all news apps out, Kindle and Instapaper kept, games gone except chess and the New York Times Games app, and so on. I installed &lt;a href=&#34;https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/dumbify/id6480082872&#34;&gt;Dumbify&lt;/a&gt;. I had an honest — brutal, frankly — conversation with my notifications. And it&amp;rsquo;s been nice. I am not telling you any of this because I want to promote some kind of opinion on doomscrolling and distractions and squeezing the juice out of every minute of your life. You do you. I am mentioning it only because I thought of my relationship with my phone a lot while reading about &lt;a href=&#34;https://unwinnable.com/2024/05/31/i-have-no-mouth-and-i-must-scream-the-terror-of-tamagotchi/&#34;&gt;the terror of Tamagotchi&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;❝It was the year 2010, and I had been given a Tamagotchi. I was surprised by this, because I was under the impression that Meredith really didn’t care for me. But oh, how wrong I was. Meredith fucking hated me. Her gift was not a cute piece of nerd nostalgia, but a brutal PsyOp designed to drive me to the brink of despair. And it worked.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-20&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-20&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782070005/74424681-F5AD-4EEA-B629-5BE164C4D2A4_xsener.jpg&#34; width=&#34;540&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;As Normal as Possible, Dana Schutz&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/dana-schutz/as-normal-as-possible-2015&#34;&gt;As Normal as Possible&lt;/a&gt; / Dana Schutz&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-21&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-21&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;👾 &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://pixeljamarcade.com/game/utopia-must-fall/&#34;&gt;Utopia Must Fall&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; is &lt;em&gt;Missile Command&lt;/em&gt; meets &lt;em&gt;Galaga&lt;/em&gt; meets &lt;em&gt;Asteroids&lt;/em&gt;. / &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://raould.github.io/pn0gstr0m/&#34;&gt;Pnogstrom&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. / 💻 Does Google know &lt;a href=&#34;https://maxread.substack.com/p/does-google-know-how-google-works&#34;&gt;how Google works&lt;/a&gt;? Signs point to no. / But also: &lt;a href=&#34;https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/how-gmail-became-our-diary.html&#34;&gt;Dear G-Diary&lt;/a&gt;. / The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.404media.co/internet-sleuths-trace-the-backrooms-creepypasta-to-an-rc-car-race-track-in-wisconsin/&#34;&gt;Backrooms&lt;/a&gt; have been located. / What is &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.fastcompany.com/91134093/medium-growth-under-tony-stubblebine&#34;&gt;Medium&lt;/a&gt;? / A &lt;a href=&#34;https://chinamediaproject.org/2024/05/27/goldfish-memories/&#34;&gt;decade of China&amp;rsquo;s internet&lt;/a&gt; content no longer exists. / 🚶What was &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.ssense.com/en-us/editorial/fashion/normcore-k-hole-interview&#34;&gt;normcore&lt;/a&gt;&amp;rdquo;? &lt;mark&gt;❝Normcore was dad jeans, New Balances, Patagonia fleeces, tube socks in Birkenstocks, Jerry Seinfeld, a regular degular baseball cap, a romantic hybrid of real and imagined suburban Americana.❞&lt;/mark&gt; Also: the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.interviewmagazine.com/fashion/normcore-the-oral-history-no-one-asked-for&#34;&gt;oral history&lt;/a&gt;. / 🖕 &lt;a href=&#34;https://pitchfork.com/news/spotify-to-brick-its-own-car-thing-device-wont-offer-refunds/&#34;&gt;Spotify bricks their own device&lt;/a&gt; because fuck you. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://slate.com/business/2024/06/rolling-stone-lifetime-subscription-canceled-reactions-legal-issues.html&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rolling Stone&lt;/em&gt; cancels lifetime subscriptions&lt;/a&gt; because fuck you. / 🎨 The blackmarket for &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/taco-bell-ebay-mark-smith-paintings-19464177.php&#34;&gt;Taco Bell art&lt;/a&gt;. / 🍿 Trailer for &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/MxVNQkRM5Qw?si=STY5_desWDBS_4Px&#34;&gt;BRATS&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. (FTR, my crush on Ally Sheedy is entering its fifth decade.) / &lt;a href=&#34;https://starringthecomputer.com&#34;&gt;Starring the Computer&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.life.com/arts-entertainment/planet-of-the-apes-goes-to-a-70s-mall/&#34;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Planet Of the Apes&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; goes to the mall. / 🗄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.dayroselane.com/hydrants&#34;&gt;The Hydrant Directory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-22&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-22&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;This is officially a wrap on Volume 2. Sorry it went out with a whimper and not a roar, but summer happens. Enjoy your vacay, kids!&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-23&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-23&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1782070098/8E7CE489-4A9D-4DDB-BA7E-64D6B4F17442_n0ps97.jpg&#34; width=&#34;500&#34; height=&#34;406&#34; alt=&#34;The Dinner Party, Judy Chicago&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/judy-chicago/the-dinner-party-1979&#34;&gt;The Dinner Party&lt;/a&gt; / Judy Chicago&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-24&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-24&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;food-fight-for-thought-and-other-confusions&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Food fight for thought (and other confusions). &lt;a href=&#34;#food-fight-for-thought-and-other-confusions&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📰 Two decades of &lt;a href=&#34;https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/mtv-news-website-archives-pulled-offline-1236047163/&#34;&gt;MTV News&lt;/a&gt; was just memory holed. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/mtvnews.com&#34;&gt;Archive&lt;/a&gt;) / 🎨 On the &lt;a href=&#34;https://theculturewedeserve.substack.com/p/culture-digested-the-phd-in-creativity&#34;&gt;PhD in&lt;/a&gt; (and general hollowing of) &lt;a href=&#34;https://theculturewedeserve.substack.com/p/culture-digested-the-phd-in-creativity&#34;&gt;&amp;ldquo;creativity.&amp;quot;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;mark&gt;❝The desire was not to elevate the already nonconformist or arty, but to convince the normies to conceptualize themselves as unconventional, creative, quirky – in the hopes that they could be encouraged to “think outside the box” of what a pesticide is supposed to be or what a weapon of war could accomplish.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/arts/design/banksy-museum-review.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zE0.eZeW._swh4WkKfJED&amp;smid=url-share&#34;&gt;Banksy without Banksy&lt;/a&gt;. / 🍽️ The people who &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/06/13/the-people-who-fight-at-dinner-parties/&#34;&gt;fight at dinner parties&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝I am pleased to see the dinner party as an occasion to intensify dissent rather than merely react to it.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🎸 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.queensongs.info&#34;&gt;Queen Songs&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;http://exoticaproject.com&#34;&gt;The Exotica Project&lt;/a&gt; (and other collections). / &lt;a href=&#34;https://shop.a24films.com/products/stop-making-sense-zine&#34;&gt;Dance Like David Byrne&lt;/a&gt;, a zine. / ⚱️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/13/style/francoise-hardy-french-fashion.html&#34;&gt;Françoise Hardy&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/26/sports/sika-anoai-wwe-dead.html&#34;&gt;Sika&lt;/a&gt; died. / 📻 Free &lt;a href=&#34;https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk&#34;&gt;sound effects&lt;/a&gt; from the BBC. / Also: 5 hours of &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/CxHa5KaMBcM?si=1Ec5mDc5sCCKDrLz&#34;&gt;the Shipping Forecast&lt;/a&gt;. / 👾 &lt;a href=&#34;https://rcveeder.net/moondrop/&#34;&gt;Moondrop Isle&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://leveldevil.io&#34;&gt;Level Devil&lt;/a&gt;. / 🍿 Search and play &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.playphrase.me/#/search?q=loser&amp;pos=1&#34;&gt;phrases from movies&lt;/a&gt;. / 🧮 &lt;a href=&#34;https://paperlined.org/apps/wikipedia/offsite_content/Calculator_spelling.txt&#34;&gt;Calculator words&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; 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&lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 1https://tylerhellard.com/poploser/vol1/Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/poploser/vol1/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pop-loser-vol-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pop Loser Vol. 1 &lt;a href=&#34;#pop-loser-vol-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;January 1, 2024 – March 11, 2024.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: Some of the formatting, data and links may be broken from when this site was last ported.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1781908494/FCCB0D25-8CC8-4C74-8AC6-03F5C5E4216D_pqrtth.png&#34; alt=&#34;Pop Loser Vol. 1&#34; class=&#34;art&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;I used to &lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20140207092141/http://poploser.org/&#34;&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; and then I newslettered [FILE NOT FOUND!] and now I mostly sit around scratching my cat. I miss the internet.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I’m blogging again, I think. I kind of want to play with it, taking cues from the old versions of Pop Loser, the &lt;a href=&#34;https://fimoculous.com&#34;&gt;sites&lt;/a&gt; I stole from then, and a few &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.thingsmagazine.net&#34;&gt;sites&lt;/a&gt; that have kept on keeping on and I’d like to steal from now. I want it to be weird and esoteric. I want it to be fun and funny.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The best part: there’s no audience. Zero. Nobody knows this is here and it isn’t plugged into any kind of external social network. I have no tracking or site analytics installed.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Doesn’t that sound… nice?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;and-now-the-internet&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;And now, the internet! &lt;a href=&#34;#and-now-the-internet&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🖼️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://disappointedtourist.org/&#34;&gt;The Disappointed Tourist&lt;/a&gt; is a collection of paintings of places that no longer exist. / 🍪 The curious case of the disappearing &lt;a href=&#34;https://thehustle.co/the-curious-case-of-the-disappearing-hydrox-cookies/&#34;&gt;Hydrox cookies&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝According to company lore, the name stemmed from the elements of water — hydrogen and oxygen — chosen to symbolize the cookie’s cleanliness at a time when materials like chalk and plaster of Paris routinely appeared in baked goods.❞&lt;/mark&gt; Nailed it. / 📻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-27506885&#34;&gt;Annie Nightingale&lt;/a&gt; died. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.britishrecordshoparchive.org&#34;&gt;The British Record Shop Archive&lt;/a&gt;. / I know some people who are real assholes about audio fidelity, but this guy &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/interactive/2024/ken-fritz-greatest-stereo-auction-cost/&#34;&gt;pointlessly ruining his life building a stereo&lt;/a&gt; is the saddest thing ever. / 🎞️ The &lt;a href=&#34;https://biblioracle.substack.com/p/a-book-better-than-the-movie&#34;&gt;novelization of E.T.&lt;/a&gt; sounds great. &lt;mark&gt;❝The movie treats E.T. as something like the children who befriend him, but in the novel we come to know that he is a creature beyond age and has been fulfilling his mission for eons.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.galerie.com&#34;&gt;Galerie&lt;/a&gt; is a movie club with monthly guest curators. / 🐋 An &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/14/magazine/hvaldimir-whale.html&#34;&gt;escaped Russian spy whale &lt;/a&gt;really highlights how seriously we take whales. / 🖥️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/&#34;&gt;Oodbye&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;Susan Sontag, &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regarding_the_Pain_of_Others&#34;&gt;20 years ago&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;mark&gt;❝There is shame as well as shock in looking at the close-up of a real horror. Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of this extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it, or those who could learn from it. The rest of us are voyeurs, whether or not we mean to be.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / Sarah Aziza, &lt;a href=&#34;https://jewishcurrents.org/the-work-of-the-witness&#34;&gt;last week&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;mark&gt;❝Bear witness, we tell ourselves as helplessness threatens to engulf us on our far end of the telescope. Bear witness, we say, yet three months into a livestreamed genocide, we must ask—what does all this looking do?❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;recent-and-uninteresting-media-diet&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Recent and uninteresting media diet. &lt;a href=&#34;#recent-and-uninteresting-media-diet&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📚 &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8193478W/Oliver_Twist?edition=key%3A/books/OL46835116M&#34;&gt;Oliver Twist&lt;/a&gt; by Charles Dickens (Finished). Hadn’t read it before, but gave it a go after reading A Christmas Carol over the holidays. The cultural memory of this book is hilariously off — everything people talk about happens in the first 50 pages. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16624548W/The_Shakespeare_thefts?edition=key%3A/books/OL25304972M&#34;&gt;The Shakespeare Thefts&lt;/a&gt; by Eric Rasmussen (Abandoned.) / &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL2178242W/Albert_Camus?edition=key%3A/books/OL657819M&#34;&gt;Albert Camus: A Life&lt;/a&gt; by Oliver Todd (Abandoned). Not sure why I tried—I never finish biographies. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5092623W/Mrs._Frisby_and_the_Rats_of_Nimh?edition=key%3A/books/OL5078044M&#34;&gt;Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH&lt;/a&gt; by Robert C. O’Brien (Started). Reading with the kids. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL8702050W/Post_Captain?edition=key%3A/books/OL22579607M&#34;&gt;Post Captain&lt;/a&gt; by Patrick O’Brian (Started). I’ve been meaning to get back to these books since Pandy Summer. / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://trakt.tv/shows/night-court&#34;&gt;Night Court&lt;/a&gt; seasons 6–9. Any show that runs long enough becomes a caricature of its former self. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://trakt.tv/shows/doctor-who-2005&#34;&gt;Doctor Who&lt;/a&gt; season 4 + the David Tennant season 4.5 specials. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://trakt.tv/shows/only-murders-in-the-building&#34;&gt;Only Murders In the Building&lt;/a&gt; season 3. I think this is my favourite current show, but I don’t watch a lot of current shows. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://trakt.tv/shows/the-wonder-years&#34;&gt;The Wonder Years&lt;/a&gt; season 3. I started this before I learned Kevin Arnold is an &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2022-08-10/fred-savage-allegations-misconduct#:~:text=Savage%20was%20first%20sued%20by,and%20sexually%20harassing%20her%20daily&#34;&gt;IRL dick&lt;/a&gt; but now I’m committed. / 🍿 &lt;a href=&#34;https://letterboxd.com/film/the-thing/&#34;&gt;The Thing&lt;/a&gt;. The 11yo asked to watch this and I’ve never been so happy. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://letterboxd.com/film/she-came-to-me/&#34;&gt;She Came to Me&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; 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y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://longreads.com/2024/01/16/beauty-and-the-beat-book-excerpt-lisa-whittington-hill/&#34;&gt;An excerpt from Beauty and the Beat&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;mark&gt;❝When the Go-Go’s heard Beauty and the Beat for the first time they cried, but they weren’t exactly tears of joy. &lt;strong&gt;They thought they were making a punk record&lt;/strong&gt;.❞&lt;/mark&gt; Buy Friend Lisa’s &lt;a href=&#34;https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-go-go-s-beauty-and-the-beat-lisa-whittington-hill/19219481&#34;&gt;new book&lt;/a&gt; about the Go-Go’s (or her &lt;a href=&#34;https://alllitup.ca/books/girls-interrupted/&#34;&gt;other new book&lt;/a&gt; about the failures of pop culture).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1781908931/8005CD24-0AF7-40D4-80DB-ACA1249F0882_i0ya3o.jpg&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;450&#34; alt=&#34;&#34; loading=&#34;lazy&#34; class=&#34;art&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;the-call-came-from-inside-the-algorithm&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;The call came from inside the algorithm. &lt;a href=&#34;#the-call-came-from-inside-the-algorithm&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/jan/16/the-tyranny-of-the-algorithm-why-every-coffee-shop-looks-the-same&#34;&gt;The tyranny of the algo&lt;/a&gt; (or: why does every coffee shop look the same?) &lt;mark&gt;❝They were authentic to the internet, particularly the 2010s internet of algorithmic feeds.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://yalereview.org/article/anna-shechtman-algorithm-kyle-chayka-taylor-lorenz&#34;&gt;Life in the algo&lt;/a&gt; (or: of course every coffee shop looks the same.) &lt;mark&gt;❝That the Myspace model has won this war will come to many as a surprise, since the company lost its own battle against Facebook in the mid-aughts.❞&lt;/em&gt;‌&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;scenes-from-the-web&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Scenes from the web. &lt;a href=&#34;#scenes-from-the-web&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;👨‍🎤 Pitchfork identifies the age of &lt;a href=&#34;https://pitchfork.com/features/article/the-age-of-shitpost-modernism/&#34;&gt;shitpost modernism&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The greatest shitpost modernism seems to halt time.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / Platformer identifies &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.platformer.news/why-pitchfork-died/&#34;&gt;Pitchfork’s killers&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;&lt;em&gt;‌❝Contemporary music culture is much more invested in fandoms than it is in criticism.❞&lt;/mark&gt; Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. / 🎞️ Free &lt;a href=&#34;https://ihavenotv.com&#34;&gt;documentaries&lt;/a&gt;, free &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.openculture.com/free_film_noir_movies&#34;&gt;film noir&lt;/a&gt; and free &lt;a href=&#34;https://wikiflix.toolforge.org/#/&#34;&gt;public domain films&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/movies/norman-jewison-dead.html&#34;&gt;Norman Jewison&lt;/a&gt; died. 📓 You are all singing, all dancing &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2024/01/10/what-if-were-all-self-playing-harps/&#34;&gt;vibrations in the environment generating sensations in the body&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The idea struck Coleridge powerfully, prompting him to write a poem called “The Eolian Harp,” which is structured like the galaxy-brain meme, escalating in philosophical profundity with each stanza until it reaches its crescendo.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / A different &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/15/piano-lesson-richard-siken-poem&#34;&gt;poem&lt;/a&gt; I liked. / 👏 Remembering &lt;a href=&#34;https://spectrum.ieee.org/clapper&#34;&gt;the Clapper&lt;/a&gt; and the genius who perfected selling crap on television. &lt;mark&gt;❝The device did not work. Indeed, when people used it to control their TVs, it tended to short-circuit the set.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🎳 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.gq.com/story/jason-belmonte-bowling-profile&#34;&gt;greatest bowler in the world&lt;/a&gt; (possibly ever) throws with two hands, which a lot of people really, really hate and it’s sorta weird I’ve never heard of him before. &lt;mark&gt;❝Kids who want to hook it like Belmo, who want to send the pins into concussion protocol.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🥘 Everyone is talking about &lt;a href=&#34;https://cooked.wiki&#34;&gt;Cooked.wiki&lt;/a&gt;. / 🌐 &lt;a href=&#34;https://diagram.website&#34;&gt;An internet map&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;http://oldavista.com&#34;&gt;OldaVista&lt;/a&gt;, the most powerful guide to the old internet. (Related: Science proves &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.404media.co/google-search-really-has-gotten-worse-researchers-find/&#34;&gt;Google kinda sucks&lt;/a&gt; now. / 🧑‍🎓 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/high.school.high/&#34;&gt;High School High&lt;/a&gt;, graphic design from vintage yearbooks.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;addendum-to-the-previous&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Addendum to the previous. &lt;a href=&#34;#addendum-to-the-previous&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.honest-broker.com/p/why-is-music-journalism-collapsing&#34;&gt;Why music journalism is collapsing&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;mark&gt;❝If people don’t listen to new music, they don’t need music reviews. And they don’t need interviews with rising stars. Or best of year lists. Or any of the other things music writers do for their readers.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; 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y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;social-needia&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Social Needia. &lt;a href=&#34;#social-needia&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📱 &lt;a href=&#34;https://daftsocial.com&#34;&gt;Daft Social&lt;/a&gt;, the anti-social social network for minimalists. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.pi.fyi&#34;&gt;Perfectly Imperfect&lt;/a&gt;, which I’m &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.pi.fyi/u/poploser&#34;&gt;using&lt;/a&gt; to try and understand the youngs. / Swipe right to add me to your professional network &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-is-a-dating-app-remote-work-online-romance-2024-1&#34;&gt;on LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The common thread for love-hijacked social-media sites is a single feature: DMs.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p style=&#34;font-size: 1.2em;&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wheresyoured.at/how/&#34;&gt;Ed Zitron goes off&lt;/a&gt;. ==❝There is no reason to be a “ techno-optimist ” because the tech industry has outright abused consumers to the point that existing online is a continual war against the internet itself.❞== &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;play-things&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Play things. &lt;a href=&#34;#play-things&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🧑‍🎨 An interview with &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/style/art-but-sports.html&#34;&gt;Art But Make It Sports&lt;/a&gt;, the last good Twitter account. &lt;mark&gt;❝If I were to find a similar scene but the person has their clothes on, it’s not going to hit.❞&lt;/mark&gt; Amen, mon frère. Amen. / 👾 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/18/arts/donkey-kong-scores-billy-mitchell-twin-galaxies.html&#34;&gt;The King Of Kong 2: Electric Peer Review&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;http://sarien.net&#34;&gt;Sarien.net&lt;/a&gt;, the authorized portal for reliving classic Sierra On-Line adventure games, and &lt;a class=&#34;autolink&#34; href=&#34;https://Web-Adventures.org&#34;&gt;Web-Adventures.org&lt;/a&gt; for playing classic text games (via &lt;a href=&#34;http://www.thingsmagazine.net&#34;&gt;Things&lt;/a&gt;). / Inside the New York Times big bet on &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.vanityfair.com/news/inside-the-new-york-times-big-bet-on-games&#34;&gt;games&lt;/a&gt;. / 📻 DATPIFF has relaunched &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/hiphopmixtapes?tab=about&#34;&gt;50 TB of hip-hop mixtapes&lt;/a&gt; on the Internet Archive.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; 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--&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Artificial inelegance. &lt;a href=&#34;#artificial-inelegance&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Do androids dream of a sociology final about to begin even though you haven’t been to class all year (and, in fact, graduated nearly 25 years ago)?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; 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&lt;p style=&#34;text-align: left;&#34;&gt;Will Sasso and Chad Kultgen host a podcast called “Dudesy” with an “AI” also called “Dudesy” because branding is important. That’s about all I know about that (although I was a big Mad TV fan back in the day). The Dudesy dudes then pointed the Dudesy dudebot at George Carlin, creating &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oewO21LQPrQ&#34;&gt;an hour-long special&lt;/a&gt; [Link comes and goes.] in his style and voice, and thus a fresh can of worms was opened upon this world. &lt;p style=&#34;text-align: left;&#34;&gt;I did not listen to the whole thing, but just enough to be made uncomfortable in the uncanny valley of humour, where you innocently look at the ethereal shape of a familiar(ish) joke and only &lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/ML3rNypqHAc?si=yliwqGx6izMD_VXt&#34;&gt;lifeless doll-eyes&lt;/a&gt; stare back. &lt;p style=&#34;text-align: left;&#34;&gt;And that was the general consensus: this is a bad imitation of a comedy legend. So the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/26/arts/carlin-lawsuit-ai-podcast-copyright.html&#34;&gt;lawsuit&lt;/a&gt; claiming damage to the Carlin’s legacy seems a little specious. ==❝It is a piece of computer-generated click-bait which detracts from the value of Carlin’s comedic works and harms his reputation.❞== If anything, Dudesy has highlighted intangible qualities, some unique to humans, some specific to George Carlin. Call it consciousness, call it genius, call it the soul, there is a void in Dudesy’s impression that is simultaneously difficult to define, but also generally agreed upon. Neat trick, but we listened to George Carlin and you, sir, are no George Carlin. &lt;p style=&#34;text-align: left;&#34;&gt;Legally, this lives in the same grey copyright area as everything else in AI right now. These things are trained on human-created content — dare I say it, “Art” — and then they regurgitate the average of what they learned. As an atheist, I guess I believe every person is the sum total of the things put into them and a person’s ideas are just a manifestation of that, and AI is doing more or less the same thing. I’m not sure I’m quite there yet, though. But still, interesting stuff. All this existential dread over machines that can’t quite understand context or fingers makes for good discourse. &lt;p style=&#34;text-align: left;&#34;&gt;Unfortunately, it’s mostly moot. Under the bright lights of The Legal Process©️, Dudesy the show has conceded that Dudesy the bot is actually just Dudesy the fictional character and the Carlin routine was &lt;a href=&#34;https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/george-carlins-heirs-sue-comedy-podcast-over-ai-generated-impression/&#34;&gt;entirely written&lt;/a&gt; by one of the Dudesy dudes. Weirdly, writing a bunch of jokes that sound like a robot doing an impression of George Carlin is a more artistic endeavour than making a robot do an impression of George Carlin, and they totally nailed it! &lt;p style=&#34;text-align: left;&#34;&gt;All of that said, I would probably not be okay if someone I loved was brought back from the dead in the most Black Mirror of ways. Kind of a dick move. &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;more-adventures-in-ai&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;More adventures in AI. &lt;a href=&#34;#more-adventures-in-ai&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Someone finished Keith Haring’s finished unfinished work, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.openculture.com/2024/01/ai-completes-keith-harings-unfinished-painting-and-controversy-erupts.html&#34;&gt;Unfinished Painting&lt;/a&gt;, which also raises fun questions about humanity and art, but mostly people just got really mad about it. / A profile of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/02/05/inside-the-music-industrys-high-stakes-ai-experiments&#34;&gt;Lucian Grainge&lt;/a&gt;, which looks at the music industry’s approach to AI. &lt;mark&gt;❝Universal’s stock fell by roughly twenty per cent between February and mid-May, over concerns about generative A.I. eroding the value of its copyrights. (The stock has since recovered, and is near an all-time high.)❞&lt;/mark&gt; So everyone is clearly being reasonable. / The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/taylor-swift-ai-generated-nudes-swifties-1234954487/&#34;&gt;Taylor Swift Machine&lt;/a&gt; is mobilizing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;📰 The only way to save journalism is &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/public-funding-of-journalism-is-the&#34;&gt;public funding&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Creative destruction, so beloved by economic theorists, can be scary but beneficial in the long term. This is not that. This is just destruction. The reporters being laid off now are not going to go get jobs at an intriguing news startup in a few months. They are going to get jobs outside of journalism, because the journalism jobs have simply been eradicated.❞&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; 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&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🌭 I trust you because &lt;a href=&#34;https://vimeo.com/807460317&#34;&gt;you have a dick&lt;/a&gt;. / 🚽 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.blackbirdspyplane.com/p/no-more-bathroom-fit-pics-ever-again&#34;&gt;Stop sharing selfies with toilets in them&lt;/a&gt;, you sickos. / 🏄 The point of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/the-point-of-point-break&#34;&gt;Point Break&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The year of Nevermind and Desert Storm, though you could also think of it as the era when everyone in Hollywood movies looked slightly wet.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🤯 Literally my &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/unopened-hockey-card-auction-gretzky-rookie-1.7098373&#34;&gt;wildest dream&lt;/a&gt;. / 🖍️ The origins of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/thomas-steeles-comic-sans-is-it-really-that-bad-publication-graphic-design-extract-310124?ref=sidebar&#34;&gt;Comic Sans&lt;/a&gt;. / 🦠 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.bonappetit.com/story/double-dipping&#34;&gt;Double dipping&lt;/a&gt; in the post-pandy era.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; 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x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;apopalyptic&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Apopalyptic. &lt;a href=&#34;#apopalyptic&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📚 That scathing &lt;a href=&#34;https://thepointmag.com/criticism/very-ordinary-men/&#34;&gt;Elon Musk review&lt;/a&gt; everyone is sharing. &lt;mark&gt;❝What is a book, exactly? What are people doing when they read? Might banning a few books actually be a good idea?❞&lt;/mark&gt; / But seriously. &lt;a href=&#34;https://lithub.com/against-disruption-on-the-bulletpointization-of-books/&#34;&gt;What even are books for&lt;/a&gt; anymore? / 📰 &lt;a href=&#34;https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/kara-swisher-burn-book-excerpt-silicon-valley-media.html&#34;&gt;Kara Swisher told you so&lt;/a&gt;. And you. And also you. / 🌐 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/how-many-videos-youtube-research/677250/&#34;&gt;Deep YouTube&lt;/a&gt; has become infrastructure. &lt;mark&gt;❝YouTube is now less an opportunity than a requirement—something you have to use, because basic elements of society have organized around it.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/&#34;&gt;The internet used to be fun&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;media-diet-pt-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Media diet (Pt. 2). &lt;a href=&#34;#media-diet-pt-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🎵 Problem Patterns - &lt;a href=&#34;https://music.apple.com/ca/album/blouse-club/1671512403&#34;&gt;Blouse Club&lt;/a&gt;. / Chilly Gonzalez - &lt;a href=&#34;https://music.apple.com/ca/album/solo-piano/1134154224&#34;&gt;Solo Piano&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://music.apple.com/ca/album/z/310098961&#34;&gt;Z&lt;/a&gt;. New to me, Chilly has a pretty interesting &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilly_Gonzales?wprov=sfti1&#34;&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;. / Jaimie Branch - &lt;a href=&#34;https://music.apple.com/ca/album/fly-or-die-fly-or-die-fly-or-die-world-war/1688825105&#34;&gt;Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))&lt;/a&gt; / 📚 &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1916911W/Juliet_naked&#34;&gt;Juliet, Naked&lt;/a&gt; by Nick Hornby (fin). Good book. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL27775070W/Dickens_and_Prince?edition=key%3A/books/OL38800309M&#34;&gt;Dickens &amp;amp; Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius&lt;/a&gt; by Nick Hornby. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL74405W/The_Fortress_of_Solitude?edition=key%3A/books/OL31443492M&#34;&gt;The Fortress of Solitude&lt;/a&gt; by Jonathan Lethem (started). / 🍿 &lt;a href=&#34;https://letterboxd.com/film/wonder-boys/&#34;&gt;Wonder Boys&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://letterboxd.com/film/juliet-naked/&#34;&gt;Juliet, Naked&lt;/a&gt;. Bad movie. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://letterboxd.com/film/the-fog/&#34;&gt;The Fog&lt;/a&gt;. I always want Carpenter movies to be as good as The Thing, but they never are. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://letterboxd.com/film/the-karate-kid/&#34;&gt;The Karate Kid&lt;/a&gt;. A first viewing for the 11yo, who recently started taking lessons. He is now very interested in how to pull a no can defense move. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://letterboxd.com/film/the-karate-kid-part-ii/&#34;&gt;The Karate Kid II&lt;/a&gt;. I love this one a lot. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://letterboxd.com/film/the-karate-kid-part-iii/&#34;&gt;The Karate Kid III&lt;/a&gt;. Fantastically stupid movie, but at least the kid is now prepared for Cobra Kai. / 📺 &lt;a href=&#34;https://trakt.tv/shows/the-wonder-years&#34;&gt;The Wonder Years&lt;/a&gt; seasons 4–6. I’m still reeling that they rebooted this show but kept it in the time period instead of pushing back 20 years again… which would be the early 2000s. I’ll shut up. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://trakt.tv/shows/scott-pilgrim-takes-off&#34;&gt;Scott Pilgrim Takes Off&lt;/a&gt; season 1. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://trakt.tv/shows/masters-of-the-air&#34;&gt;Masters Of the Air&lt;/a&gt; (started). The airplane shit rules, but wow is the writing and acting rough in this one. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://trakt.tv/shows/the-artful-dodger&#34;&gt;The Artful Dodger&lt;/a&gt; season 1 (started). / &lt;a href=&#34;https://trakt.tv/shows/cobra-kai&#34;&gt;Cobra Kai&lt;/a&gt; season 1 (start). Literally the greatest TV show ever made.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; 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from 1992 to 2006. / A seamless 3-hour DJ set from &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.awphooey.com/wkrp&#34;&gt;WKRP’s Dr. Johnny Fever&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://mixtapegarden.com&#34;&gt;Mixtape Garden&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; 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y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;The story of the very real and authenticated &lt;a href=&#34;https://1ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fmagazine%2Farchive%2F2024%2F03%2Forlando-art-museum-basquiat-forgeries%2F677171%2F&#34;&gt;Basquiats found in a locker&lt;/a&gt; and sold for bundles. &lt;mark&gt;❝The new owners gradually amassed evidence to suggest that the works were authentic: a forensic analysis by a handwriting expert, an in-depth report by a Basquiat scholar, and a statement of authenticity signed by a founding member of a committee that the Basquiat estate had established to vet potential forgeries.❞&lt;/mark&gt; Reader, they were not real. / 🎨 Great headline: &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/oligarchs-art-collectors-billionaires-money-picasso-free-ports/&#34;&gt;Monet changes everything&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://artsandculture.google.com/pocketgallery/1QVRSOcHMzQMmQ&#34;&gt;All the Vermeers&lt;/a&gt;. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.richardjohnson.ca/ice-huts&#34;&gt;Canada&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/01/richard-johnson-ice-huts/&#34;&gt;(via)&lt;/a&gt; / AI-generated &lt;a href=&#34;https://pixel-art.ai&#34;&gt;pixel art&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; 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&lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📻 I was looking for something else on the Internet Archive (aka The Best Website), but got sidetracked by &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/ArtBell_Somewhere_In_Time&#34;&gt;old Art Bell episodes&lt;/a&gt;. Lost a whole goddamned Saturday. / 🎸 A group of people on the internet who wanted to find a &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/feb/15/long-lost-bass-guitar-returned-to-paul-mccartney-after-54-years&#34;&gt;bass guitar stolen from Paul McCartney&lt;/a&gt; 50 years ago went and fucking found it. / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.logodesignlove.com/logo-rhythm&#34;&gt;Band logos&lt;/a&gt;. / 🧢 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/mlb-jerseys-nike-fanatics-quality/677512/&#34;&gt;Shitty baseball uniforms&lt;/a&gt; is the consensus Best Story In Baseball 2024. / 🌶️ Why is there a shortage of proper, &lt;a href=&#34;https://fortune.com/2024/01/30/sriracha-shortage-huy-fong-foods-tabasco-underwood-ranches/&#34;&gt;OG Sriracha&lt;/a&gt;? Because people. &lt;mark&gt;❝Both businesses lost millions. The two men became bitter enemies—and they offer sharply contrasting accounts of what went wrong.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / ☕ Tarantino opened a &lt;a href=&#34;https://la.eater.com/2024/2/16/24075103/pams-coffy-los-angeles-quentin-tarantino-coffee-shop-cafe-pam-grier-vista-theater-los-feliz&#34;&gt;coffee shop shrine to Pam Grier&lt;/a&gt;. / 🖖 &lt;a href=&#34;https://borgremastered.com&#34;&gt;Star Trek: Borg Remastered&lt;/a&gt;. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://youtu.be/_jBYkjBF8Zw?si=At77491zhghkhVcs&#34;&gt;Trailer&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek:_Borg&#34;&gt;history&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;div class=&#34;videowrap&#34;&gt; &lt;iframe src=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/embed/miGIgIqcsXA?si=RtrvvmGERyYiI-Lx&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allowfullscreen class=&#34;video&#34;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2024/pod-loser-ep-1-love.mp3&#34;&gt;Love&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (I’m gonna make more of these. Here’s the &lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;the-continuing-march-of-something-or-other&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;The continuing march of something or other. &lt;a href=&#34;#the-continuing-march-of-something-or-other&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📖 The fight over &lt;a href=&#34;https://jacobin.com/2024/02/internet-archive-free-knowledge-authors&#34;&gt;OpenLibrary&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝This was the dream of the internet I believed in. The internet as a global brain. A universal encyclopedia.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / Sorta related: 🎞️ There’s a copy of Swayze’s secret shame, &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/skatetownusa&#34;&gt;Skatetown, USA&lt;/a&gt;, on the Internet Archive. / 🧑‍🎤 Looking back at “We Are the World”—&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-weirdest-night-in-pop&#34;&gt;the weirdest night in pop&lt;/a&gt;—through the new doc. &lt;mark&gt;❝Listening to its mild wash of melody and sentiment can produce an odd mix of grudging respect and self-flagellation; it feels bad to disdain a charity single.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / From the New Yorker archive: Susan Orlean’s 1991 profile of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1991/06/17/living-large&#34;&gt;Fab Five Freddy&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Summing up what he does for a living, Freddy said recently, ‘I’m the king of synthesis.’ There is no such job listed with the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics. Freddy nonetheless synthesizes full time.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🤖 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/17/humanitys-remaining-timeline-it-looks-more-like-five-years-than-50-meet-the-neo-luddites-warning-of-an-ai-apocalypse&#34;&gt;luddites&lt;/a&gt; are coming. &lt;mark&gt;❝Eliezer Yudkowsky explains with real patience that every single person we know and love will soon be dead. They will be murdered by rebellious self-aware machines.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🏖️ The &lt;a href=&#34;https://fontsinuse.com/uses/43515/the-mystery-of-the-dune-font&#34;&gt;Dune font&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;div class=&#34;videowrap&#34;&gt; &lt;iframe src=&#34;https://archive.org/embed/skatetownusa&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allowfullscreen class=&#34;video&#34;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;what-was-vice&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;What was Vice? &lt;a href=&#34;#what-was-vice&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;If a tree falls in the woods and someone pulps it into a 90s’ magazine, is that a DOs or a DON’Ts?&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;Vice is, for all intents and purposes, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/27/vice-clever-irreverent-executives-helped-kill-it&#34;&gt;dead&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style=&#34;text-align: left;&#34;&gt;For much of its history, Vice (the royal Vice—an ever-evolving magazine thing and website thing and news thing and video thing and brand thing and aesthetic thing) seemed both outside and ahead and irreverent, but also reckless and gross and, well, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000003509105/page-one-david-carr-confronts-vice.html&#34;&gt;douchebaggy&lt;/a&gt;. I loved Vice, even if they did seem singularly dedicated to never quite being the &lt;a href=&#34;https://deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-1837487584&#34;&gt;adult in the room&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;p style=&#34;text-align: left;&#34;&gt;I went to university in a small town in eastern Nova Scotia. We did not get Vice. If you were lucky (and happened to be in Halifax), you could get one at &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.thecoast.ca/news-opinion/the-paperchase-closes-next-week-4588484&#34;&gt;Blowers Street&lt;/a&gt; before they sold out. Occasionally I’d get some back issues sent to me via an informal network on a Canadian University Press listserv. &lt;p style=&#34;text-align: left;&#34;&gt;Here’s a screenshot of my first ever Amazon order: &lt;img src=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2024/screen-shot-2024-02-29-at-11.30.49-am.png&#34; width=&#34;600&#34; height=&#34;507&#34; alt=&#34;&#34;&gt; &lt;p style=&#34;text-align: left;&#34;&gt;That book was in the bathroom of me and my wife’s first apartment for five years, so I read it a lot of times, at least until iPhones got really good. A few years ago, I met &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/mack-lamoureux&#34;&gt;Mack&lt;/a&gt; at a thing and told him I thought his dives into the right-wing extremes of Canada was the most important journalism happening. Vice was really cool! &lt;p style=&#34;text-align: left;&#34;&gt;But &lt;a href=&#34;https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/24/anti-posse/#when-you-absolutely-positively-dont-give-a-solitary-single-fuck&#34;&gt;also&lt;/a&gt;: ==❝Vice died the way it lived: being suckered in by smarter predators, even as it trained its own predatory instincts on those more credulous than its own supremely gullible leadership.❞== Well, yeah. There’s that. And &lt;a href=&#34;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavin_McInnes&#34;&gt;that&lt;/a&gt;, too. This is a &lt;a href=&#34;https://newrepublic.com/article/179276/vice-magazine-history-layoffs-digital-media-bubble&#34;&gt;pretty a comprehensive accounting&lt;/a&gt;. It ain’t great. History is messy or something. &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;everything-remains-terrible&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Everything remains terrible. &lt;a href=&#34;#everything-remains-terrible&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;📰 When websites die, their &lt;a href=&#34;https://slate.com/business/2024/02/messenger-gawker-vice-media-layoffs-sites-deleted-why.html&#34;&gt;content disappears&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝Journalists spent the day downloading their articles as PDFs and saving links on public archive websites like the Wayback Machine.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / It’s getting &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/28/technology/news-media-industry-dying.html&#34;&gt;pretty bad&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝There are signs that the whole concept of ‘news’ is fading.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / It’ll probably get worse but &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-weekend-essay/is-the-media-prepared-for-an-extinction-level-event&#34;&gt;also maybe better&lt;/a&gt;. Who knows. / Save newspapers: &lt;a href=&#34;https://the-artifice.com/poetry-newspapers/&#34;&gt;publish poetry&lt;/a&gt;. / 💽 Reddit and Tumblr and Wordpress, &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.vox.com/technology/24086039/reddit-tumblr-wordpress-whos-selling-your-data-to-train-ai&#34;&gt;oh my&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;mark&gt;❝The New York Times is currently suing OpenAI for allegedly using its expansive archives without permission to train chatbots. […] Other companies have decided to make deals.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🍔 Surge-pricing your &lt;a href=&#34;https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/wendys-plans-ai-powered-menu-to-change-food-prices-based-on-demand-weather/?utm_brand=arstechnica&amp;utm_social-type=owned&amp;utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&#34;&gt;Baconator&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2024/pod-loser-ep-2-space.mp3&#34;&gt;Space&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape. (&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/podcast.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pirates-are-in-this-year&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pirates are in this year. &lt;a href=&#34;#pirates-are-in-this-year&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Many, many years ago while visiting my then-girlfriend/now-wife in Toronto, I bought &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3691006W/40_Watts_from_Nowhere?edition=ia%3A40wattsfromnowhe00carp&#34;&gt;a book about a pirate radio station&lt;/a&gt; in Los Angeles. It was delightful and stuck with me to the extent that my next novel, should I ever finish it, is set in a very appropriated version of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.instagram.com/kbltsilverlake/&#34;&gt;KBLT&lt;/a&gt;. I just learned they are making a documentary version and are currently &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kblt/40-watts-from-nowhere-the-kblt-documentary&#34;&gt;Kickstarting funds&lt;/a&gt; mainly for music licensing, which is obviously essential to a story about pirate radio in the 1990s.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/q_auto/f_auto/v1781910641/BFE661FC-6448-403E-8DB5-CC6246C1359E_nnv8b8.jpg&#34; width=&#34;482&#34; height=&#34;600&#34; alt=&#34;&#34; class=&#34;art&#34;&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.wikiart.org/en/victor-pasmore/abstract-in-white-grey-and-ochre-1949&#34;&gt;Abstract in White, Grey and Ochre&lt;/a&gt; / Victor Pasmore / 1949&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;meat-the-rich&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Meat the rich. &lt;a href=&#34;#meat-the-rich&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;🏎️ The deleted &lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20240301170542/https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a46975496/behind-f1-velvet-curtain/&#34;&gt;Road &amp;amp; Track&lt;/a&gt; piece everyone is loving is very good. &lt;mark&gt;❝If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / Previously: &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL16451078W/Fear_and_loathing_at_Rolling_Stone?edition=key%3A/books/OL25162270M&#34;&gt;Polo is my life&lt;/a&gt;. 📬 &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theverge.com/24085737/tinyletter-mailchimp-shut-down-email-newsletters&#34;&gt;TinyLetter&lt;/a&gt; was neat and small and therefore had to die. / 🎥 What exactly makes a movie a &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/29/magazine/criterion-collection.html&#34;&gt;Criterion&lt;/a&gt; film? &lt;mark&gt;❝There was one producer who wrote this 10-page internal memo about why we should not do Ghostbusters.❞&lt;/mark&gt; / 🗄️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/mad-magazine-1952-2018-issue-01-550_20210811&#34;&gt;MAD Magazine&lt;/a&gt; issue 01–550. / 📻 &lt;a href=&#34;https://nyeug.com&#34;&gt;NYE Underground&lt;/a&gt;, another place for old Art Bell episodes. / 🐊 The &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.youtube.com/playlist?app=desktop&amp;list=PLOSnRadgKCGIGlXjfYk5oRpFBNeq6eXoW&#34;&gt;Godzilla Meditation Series&lt;/a&gt;. / 🖨️ &lt;a href=&#34;https://joanwestenberg.com/books/p/c5xh9ob4qg0j8e6k05fjj6ptn7nydu&#34;&gt;I miss the internet&lt;/a&gt;, a zine. / 💿 I’m gonna make you a &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/23/optical_disc_breakthrough/&#34;&gt;mix CD&lt;/a&gt; with 60,000,000 or so songs.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pod-loser-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pod Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pod-loser-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/uploads/2024/pod-loser-ep-3-slacker.mp3&#34;&gt;Slacker&lt;/a&gt;, a mixtape.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;NOTE:&lt;/mark&gt; Old tapes are archived &lt;a href=&#34;https://archive.org/details/pod-loser-love&#34;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;end-notes&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;End notes. &lt;a href=&#34;#end-notes&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;That’s a wrap on Vol. 1—I have fantasy baseball to think about. I think I’ve got this more or less figured out now. Back soon.&lt;/p&gt;Some Writinghttps://tylerhellard.com/writing/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/writing/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;some-writing&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Some writing. &lt;a href=&#34;#some-writing&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;I was the tech critic at &lt;em&gt;This Magazine&lt;/em&gt; for six years. Some of those columns are here, along with select published pieces from recent(ish) years.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/arts/tyler-hellard-dreams-of-a-fortress-of-solitude-where-he-can-bury-himself-in-clutter-9.7151306&#34;&gt;Where I Write: Tyler Hellard Dreams of a Fortress of Solitude Where He Can Bury Himself in Clutter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;CBC Arts&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://issuu.com/redpointmedia/docs/create_calgary_2025t/42&#34;&gt;Here Be Dragons&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;Create Calgary&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/rock-star-the-fast-life-and-tragic-death-of-teacup-rock/&#34;&gt;Rock, Star: The Fast Life and Tragic Death of Teacup Rock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;Canadian Geographic&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://louderthanten.com/coax/on-productivity&#34;&gt;On Productivity&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;Coax&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://this.org/2018/02/07/defining-canada-by-the-language-of-silicon-valley/&#34;&gt;Expression for the World-View: Defining Canada by the Language of Silicon Valley&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;This Magazine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://thewalrus.ca/is-facebook-good-for-the-world/&#34;&gt;Is Facebook Good For the World?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Walrus&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://this.org/2017/12/04/the-gadgets-we-rely-on-are-intrinsically-changing-us/&#34;&gt;The Shape of Water&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;This Magazine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/radio/the180/what-not-to-love-about-meryl-streep-s-speech-more-on-ptsd-and-violence-and-reform-politics-not-elections-1.3930068/newspapers-are-doomed-because-people-don-t-want-news-they-want-community-1.3932475&#34;&gt;People Don’t Want News, They Want Community&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;The 180&lt;/em&gt; (CBC Radio)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://louderthanten.com/coax/what-the-fuck-are-you-talking-about&#34;&gt;What the Fuck Are You Talking About?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;Coax&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://medium.com/@poploser/a-good-shock-3ee460a9a090&#34;&gt;A Good Shock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;This Magazine&lt;/em&gt; (Medium repost)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://louderthanten.com/coax/take-this-job-and-do-it&#34;&gt;Take This Job and Do It&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;Coax&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://this.org/2015/03/19/wiki-gap/&#34;&gt;Wiki Gap&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;This Magazine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://this.org/2014/12/15/terms-of-service/&#34;&gt;Terms Of Service&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;This Magazine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://this.org/2014/08/22/dot-com-stone-age/&#34;&gt;Dot Com Stone Age&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;This Magazine&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://medium.com/@poploser/but-is-it-art-d697aea035a9&#34;&gt;But Is It Art?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;This Magazine&lt;/em&gt; (Medium repost)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://medium.com/@poploser/ted-and-the-declining-value-of-ideas-492bc0271e79&#34;&gt;TED and the Declining Value of Ideas&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;This Magazine&lt;/em&gt; (Medium repost)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://medium.com/@poploser/we-were-promised-jetpacks-3e279c5876d0&#34;&gt;We Were Promised Jetpacks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;This Magazine&lt;/em&gt; (Medium repost)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://medium.com/@poploser/the-idea-and-the-thing-c94d9235e6cd&#34;&gt;The Idea and the Thing&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;em&gt;This Magazine&lt;/em&gt; (Medium repost)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; 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viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Garden State&lt;/em&gt; meets &lt;em&gt;King Leary&lt;/em&gt; in this slapshot debut novel. Adam Macallister’s sportswriting career is about to end before it begins, but he’s got one last shot—a Sports Illustrated profile about hockey’s most notorious goon, the reclusive Terry Punchout—who also happens to be Adam’s estranged father. &lt;img src=&#34;/terrypunchout.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Searching for Terry Punchout&#34; style=&#34;width: 30%; height: 30%; float: right; margin: 10px 0 10px 10px;&#34;&gt; Adam returns to Pennington, Nova Scotia, where Terry now lives in the local rink and drives the Zamboni. Going home means drinking with old friends, revisiting neglected relationships, and dealing with lingering feelings about his father and dead mother—and discovering that his friends and family are kinder and more complicated than he ever gave them credit for. Searching for Terry Punchout is a charming and funny tale of hockey, small-town Maritime life, and how, despite our best efforts, nothing can save us from becoming our parents.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Awards:&lt;/mark&gt; Shortlisted for the &lt;a href=&#34;https://thewalrus.ca/partnerships/amazon-canada-first-novel-award-2019/&#34;&gt;2019 Amazon First Novel Award&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/list/the-literary-fiction-shortlist/SrgHYIctT8IzogjWyYTYHQ&#34;&gt;Kobo Emerging Writer Prize&lt;/a&gt;. Part of &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/books/canadareads/meet-the-canada-reads-2026-contenders-9.7040200&#34;&gt;Canada Reads 2026&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Media:&lt;/mark&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/books/have-a-hockey-hangover-tyler-hellards-debut-novel-is-really-about-coming-home-9.7103979&#34;&gt;Bookends&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; with Mattea Roach. / &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-67-the-next-chapter-with-antonio-michael-downing/clip/16201399-why-steve-dangle-says-novel-picked-canada-reads&#34;&gt;The Next Chapter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; with Antonio Michael Downing. / &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-37-mainstreet-ns/clip/16202317-canada-reads-author-tyler-hellard-novel-searching-terry&#34;&gt;Mainstreet&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Nova Scotia.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;iframe src=&#34;//www.cbc.ca/i/phoenix/player/syndicate/?sourceId=9.7155014&#34; width=&#34;640&#34; height=&#34;360&#34; frameborder=&#34;0&#34; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;mark&gt;Buy the book:&lt;/mark&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.indiebookstores.ca/book/9781988784106/&#34;&gt;Your Local&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;http://invisiblepublishing.com/product/searching-for-terry-punchout/&#34;&gt;Invisible Publishing&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://alllitup.ca/books/S/Searching-for-Terry-Punchout&#34;&gt;All Lit Up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/product/9781988784106-item.html?mkwid=sKLCrs73h_dc&amp;amp;pcrid=44154474422&amp;amp;pkw&amp;amp;pmt&amp;amp;s_campaign=goo-Shopping_Books&amp;amp;ds_rl=1254699&amp;amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIubz06rGw2gIVx2F-Ch0LOguyEAYYASABEgKMovD_BwE&#34;&gt;Chapters&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/searching-for-terry-punchout&#34;&gt;Kobo&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://itunes.apple.com/ca/book/searching-for-terry-punchout/id1374051759?mt=11&#34;&gt;Apple Books&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.librarything.com/work/21881952/t/Searching-for-Terry-Punchout&#34;&gt;LibraryThing&lt;/a&gt; / &lt;a href=&#34;https://openlibrary.org/works/OL21362239W/Searching_for_Terry_Punchout?edition=key:/books/OL28936687M&#34;&gt;OpenLibrary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“It’s an assured debut, wryly funny… [I’m] ready to count it as a quiet triumph.”&lt;/em&gt; –&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;http://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2018/12/enough-heat-to-melt-the-ice/&#34;&gt;Literary Review of Canada&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“It doesn’t take much to get me to read a novel featuring hockey and a guy named Terry, but Tyler Hellard’s stellar debut hit me like an errant stick to the head. A big story set in a small town, by turns funny and sad, moving and melancholy, Searching for Terry Punchout stays with you long after the final buzzer. Masterful.”&lt;/em&gt; –&lt;strong&gt;Terry Fallis&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Funny, quirky, sad and sweet. Searching for Terry Punchout is a story of friendship and family, of hockey heroes and small-town hangovers, of Zamboni lessons and thrift store beauty queens. Highly recommended!”&lt;/em&gt; –&lt;strong&gt;Will Ferguson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Tyler Hellard has created a thoughtful, warm-hearted, and deeply human sports tale, one that will resonate with any reader who has wondered if you can ever really go home again. Searching For Terry Punchout is a vivid portrait of small town hockey life, of fathers and sons, of feeling left behind and leaving things behind, of clinging to glory and grasping for meaning. With this strong debut, Hellard makes sense of what home really means, and in doing so reveals how close we actually are to the people and places that can often feel so far away.”&lt;/em&gt; –&lt;strong&gt;Stacey May Fowles&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;“Tyler Hellard’s Terry Punchout is utterly complete and heartbreakingly authentic. If all the rinks in small-town Canada and the game of hockey itself were to suddenly disappear from the earth they could be reconstructed from the blueprint that is this excellent novel. 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Here is the &lt;a href=&#34;https://media.rss.com/podloser/feed.xml&#34;&gt;podcast feed&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;iframe class=&#34;iframe&#34; src=&#34;https://player.rss.com/podloser?theme=light&amp;v=2&amp;share=false&amp;about=false&#34; width=&#34;100%&#34; height=&#34;393px&#34; title=&#34;Pod Loser&#34; frameBorder=&#34;0&#34; allow=&#34;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture&#34; allowfullscreen scrolling=&#34;no&#34;&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://rss.com/podcasts/podloser&#34;&gt;Pod Loser | RSS.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;Arcade Scoreshttps://tylerhellard.com/tarcade/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/tarcade/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;arcade-scores&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Arcade scores. &lt;a href=&#34;#arcade-scores&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;I love vintage arcade games and built my own &lt;mark&gt;&amp;ldquo;TARCADE&amp;rdquo;&lt;/mark&gt; using &lt;a href=&#34;https://retropie.org.uk/&#34;&gt;RetroPie&lt;/a&gt;. I will never be on Twin Galaxies, but my goal with these games is just to be better than the average person at my &lt;a href=&#34;https://burnblocksocial.com/&#34;&gt;local pinball bar&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;div class=&#34;gallery&#34;&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/v1782489010/1FAC0FD5-E02D-4D74-8DED-A55A9CA5780F_a4hhmz.jpg&#34;&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/v1782488661/1C21855D-1585-426D-B57F-CBD67219A1BA_x2ovge.jpg&#34;&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/v1782488661/3EC7E52C-AAD7-4D4F-B01C-B9D9905FDC6F_pljpih.jpg&#34;&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/v1782488662/2972254C-DB22-4671-95A2-32DA69100D4A_mbtzh1.jpg&#34;&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/v1782488662/0F2325DE-BF9C-4CB7-93FA-18F70A65F8C1_vwgw59.jpg&#34;&gt; &lt;img src=&#34;https://res.cloudinary.com/dwwbmrctk/image/upload/v1782488661/F85D66F3-D428-4317-B668-44D21BAEE314_v3l030.jpg&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; justify-content: center; gap: 10px; max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center;&#34;&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Ms. Pac-Man&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;43,320 &lt;br&gt;(Home) &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Ms. Pac-Man&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;60,720 &lt;br&gt;(Burn Block) &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Ms. Pac-Man&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;39,080 &lt;br&gt;(Arcade1Up) &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Asteroids Deluxe&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;27,040 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Tube Panic&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;138,584 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Gyruss&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;64,300 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Q*bert&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;17,545 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Centipede&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;41,077 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Aero Fighters&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;225,100 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Gemini Wing&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;119,780 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Tempest&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;14,483 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Raiden&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;143,500 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Night Striker&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;12,611,010 &lt;br&gt;(Stage G) &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;BurgerTime&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;50,350 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style=&#34;width: 25%; min-width: 180px; box-sizing: border-box; border: 1px solid #ccc; border-radius: 8px; padding: 12px; margin: 5px;&#34;&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Galaga&lt;/mark&gt;&lt;br&gt;105,860 &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;About tylerhellard.comhttps://tylerhellard.com/info/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/info/&lt;img src=&#34;/tyler.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;Tyler Hellard at the Calgary Public Library (photo by tk)&#34; class=&#34;art&#34;&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;about-me&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;About me. &lt;a href=&#34;#about-me&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hi. I’m Tyler. I’m usually a professional &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylerhellard/&#34;&gt;copywriter&lt;/a&gt;, but sometimes I write &lt;a href=&#34;/writing/&#34;&gt;other things&lt;/a&gt;, too. Once I wrote a &lt;a href=&#34;/terrypunchout/&#34;&gt;novel&lt;/a&gt; that (incredibly!) became a Canadian best seller (impossibly!) eight years after it came out.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;about-pop-loser&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;About Pop Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#about-pop-loser&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Pop Loser is a blog (and, for awhile, newsletter) I&amp;rsquo;ve written on and off since 2007. It&amp;rsquo;s changed a lot over the years and I&amp;rsquo;ve burned it all to the ground five or six times. The most recent &lt;a href=&#34;/poploser/&#34;&gt;iteration&lt;/a&gt; is a bit esoteric, with a little writing and a lot of links, and includes &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&#34;/mixtapes/&#34;&gt;mixtapes&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;rdquo; When each volume finishes, posts are collected on an omnibus page: Vol. &lt;a href=&#34;/vol1/&#34;&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;/vol2/&#34;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;/vol3/&#34;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;/vol4/&#34;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;/vol5/&#34;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;. Most previous versions of Pop Loser are archived in the following places: Newsletters #1–78 (unavailable), &lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20220312222936/https://us2.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=73477be0867f67a19f1fec465&amp;amp;id=f5d72195cb&#34;&gt;#79–97&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20200809173730/https://www.getrevue.co/profile/poploser/#archive&#34;&gt;#98–113&lt;/a&gt; (2014–2018). &lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/http://poploser.org/&#34;&gt;Original blog&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20070528205939/http://www.spincity.org/blog/&#34;&gt;2007&lt;/a&gt;–&lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20140106063005/http://poploser.org/&#34;&gt;2014&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href=&#34;https://poploser.tumblr.com/&#34;&gt;Tumblr&lt;/a&gt; clone (&lt;a href=&#34;https://poploser.tumblr.com/archive&#34;&gt;2010–2014&lt;/a&gt;). From 2019 to 2024, I probably had better things to do.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-1&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-1&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;tech-stuff&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Tech stuff. &lt;a href=&#34;#tech-stuff&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;As of July 2026, this website is powered by &lt;a href=&#34;https://gohugo.io/&#34;&gt;Hugo&lt;/a&gt; using a modified version of &lt;a href=&#34;https://kaiiiz.github.io/hugo-theme-monochrome/&#34;&gt;Monochrome&lt;/a&gt; and hosted on &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/poploser/tylerhellard.com&#34;&gt;GitHub&lt;/a&gt;. The type is set primarily in &lt;a href=&#34;https://github.com/vernnobile/mondaFont&#34;&gt;Monda&lt;/a&gt; with icons, including the many skulls, come from &lt;a href=&#34;https://fontawesome.com/&#34;&gt;Font Awesome&lt;/a&gt;. Basic stats are collected with &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.goatcounter.com/&#34;&gt;GoatCounter&lt;/a&gt; (most options turned off — I&amp;rsquo;m only getting basic page views and some limited referral data). All content is written and edited in markdown with &lt;a href=&#34;https://ia.net/writer&#34;&gt;IA Writer&lt;/a&gt;. Here are your &lt;span style=&#34;color: #fff; background: #FE5C00; padding: 0 5px;&#34;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;RSS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; options: 🚒 &lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/feed.xml&#34;&gt;Firehose&lt;/a&gt; (blog posts, other writing, mixtapes, photos, etc.) / 📰 &lt;a href=&#34;https://tylerhellard.com/poploser.xml&#34;&gt;Pop Loser&lt;/a&gt; (just the blog posts) / 🎧 &lt;a href=&#34;https://media.rss.com/podloser/feed.xml&#34;&gt;Pod Loser&lt;/a&gt; (a podcast feed for just the mixtapes).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-2&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-2&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;elsewhere&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Elsewhere. &lt;a href=&#34;#elsewhere&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;I went scorched earth on social media a few years ago, but have crept back onto &lt;a href=&#34;https://mstdn.ca/@poploser&#34;&gt;Mastodon&lt;/a&gt; (though I accidentally nuked all my follows and followers in a bout of Fediverse transfer stupidity in June 2026) and &lt;a href=&#34;https://bsky.app/&#34;&gt;Bluesky&lt;/a&gt;. Most posts to this site also filter out to those sites and sometimes I even scroll those feeds and &amp;ldquo;engage&amp;rdquo; with people. Sometimes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-3&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-3&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;copyright-credits-etc&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Copyright, credits, etc. &lt;a href=&#34;#copyright-credits-etc&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;All original content on this site is available via the &lt;a href=&#34;https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/&#34;&gt;CC BY-NC-SA 4.0&lt;/a&gt; license, with the exception of personal photos in which people can be identified, which are “All Rights Reserved.” If you’re a link blogger, don&amp;rsquo;t feel obligated to “h/t” or “via” this site as it’s not something I do very often. Any headshots of me (including the one at the top of this page) are by &lt;a href=&#34;https://www.facebook.com/uppimage/&#34;&gt;Monique de St. Croix&lt;/a&gt; and should be credited as such.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading-4&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading-4&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt;About Pop Loserhttps://tylerhellard.com/poploser/about/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://tylerhellard.com/poploser/about/&lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;pop-loser&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Pop Loser. &lt;a href=&#34;#pop-loser&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;A journal of innumerable confusions.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Pop Loser is a collection of half-thoughts, links and mixtapes sorta about technology, media, arts and culture. &lt;a href=&#34;/poploser/&#34;&gt;Volume 6&lt;/a&gt; is now in progress.&lt;br&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Collected:&lt;/mark&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;/poploser/vol1&#34;&gt;Vol. 1&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;/poploser/vol2&#34;&gt;Vol. 2&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;/poploser/vol3&#34;&gt;Vol. 3&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;/poploser/vol4&#34;&gt;Vol. 4&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;/poploser/vol4&#34;&gt;Vol. 5&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br&gt; &lt;mark&gt;Also:&lt;/mark&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;/mixtapes/&#34;&gt;Mixtapes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;/feed.xml&#34;&gt;RSS&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://media.rss.com/podloser/feed.xml&#34;&gt;Podcast&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;heading&#34; --&gt; &lt;h3 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;&lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i class=&#34;fa-solid fa-skull-crossbones&#34;&gt;&lt;/i&gt; &lt;a href=&#34;#heading&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h3&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;previously&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Previously. &lt;a href=&#34;#previously&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;9&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;9&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; y1=&#34;15&#34; x2=&#34;20&#34; y2=&#34;15&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;10&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;8&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt;&lt;line x1=&#34;16&#34; y1=&#34;3&#34; x2=&#34;14&#34; y2=&#34;21&#34;&gt;&lt;/line&gt; &lt;/svg&gt; &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/h4&gt; &lt;p&gt;Newsletter #001–78, &lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20220312222936/https://us2.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=73477be0867f67a19f1fec465&amp;id=f5d72195cb&#34;&gt;#79–97&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20200809173730/https://www.getrevue.co/profile/poploser/#archive&#34;&gt;#98–113&lt;/a&gt; (2014–2018). / &lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/http://poploser.org/&#34;&gt;Original blog&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20070528205939/http://www.spincity.org/blog/&#34;&gt;2007&lt;/a&gt;–&lt;a href=&#34;https://web.archive.org/web/20140106063005/http://poploser.org/&#34;&gt;2014&lt;/a&gt;) and &lt;a href=&#34;https://poploser.tumblr.com&#34;&gt;Tumblr&lt;/a&gt; clone (&lt;a href=&#34;https://poploser.tumblr.com/archive&#34;&gt;2010–2014&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt; &lt;!-- end-chunk --&gt; &lt;!-- begin-chunk data-anchor=&#34;related&#34; --&gt; &lt;h4 class=&#34;header-anchor-wrapper&#34;&gt;Related. &lt;a href=&#34;#related&#34; class=&#34;header-anchor-link&#34;&gt; &lt;svg xmlns=&#34;http://www.w3.org/2000/svg&#34; width=&#34;1rem&#34; height=&#34;1rem&#34; viewBox=&#34;0 0 24 24&#34; fill=&#34;none&#34; stroke=&#34;currentColor&#34; stroke-width=&#34;2&#34; stroke-linecap=&#34;round&#34; stroke-linejoin=&#34;round&#34;&gt; &lt;line x1=&#34;4&#34; 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